Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski presented on Friday annual diplomas for services in the promotion of Poland in the world to a group of Poles and foreign nationals.
The Polish recipients include Professor Henryk Skarżyński, the prominent surgeon who won international reputation for his unique method of partial deafness cochlear implantation, Mirosław Bałka, one of Poland’s most acclaimed visual artists, who has had one-man exhibitions in London, Oslo, New York, Ghent and other prestigious centres, and a team of architects Natalia Paszkowska and Marcin Mostafa, who designed the Polish pavilion at the EXPO Exhibition in Shanghai.
Among the foreigners who received the Polish FM’s awards are Allen Paul, a former Associated Press reporter and writer, the author of the book ‘Katyn – Stalin’s Massacre and the Triumph of Truth’, Andjelika Borys, who served as President of the Union of Poles in Belarus for five years, and the Egyptian theatre director Hanna Abdel Fattah Metwaly, who studied at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. (mk)