Press Releases 2004

Colin Powell will also meet with Polish Government officials


Secretary of State Colin L. Powell will be in Warsaw on Sunday, August 1, to take part in observances for the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. Secretary Powell will head a Presidential delegation, which will also meet with Polish officials.

In addition to the Secretary, the group will include U.S. Ambassador-designate to Poland Victor Ashe, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago (Warsaw's sister city), Archbishop of Detroit Adam Cardinal Maida, Ron Lauder, Chairman of Clinique, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Edward Derwinski, and Chester Partyka, the former President of the Polish American Congress of Ohio. The group arrives this weekend.

Besides attending official events connected with the anniversary, Secretary Powell is expected to meet with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Prime Minister Marek Belka and Foreign Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz.

The Secretary's trip to Poland will wrap up a week of international travel that began July 26. He is also visiting Hungary, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. In the Middle East, Mr. Powell will discuss the situation in Iraq and cooperation in the war on terror.

In Hungary, he emphasized Hungarian-American relations and spoke to a meeting of Hungarian diplomats.


Contact: Jim Bond or Dick Custin, U.S. Embassy Public Affairs, (022) 504-2323