President Komorowski; photo - PAPPresident Bronislaw Komorowski starts his first official visit to Estonia today where he will meet with President Toomas Ilves and Prime Minister Andrus Ansip to discuss cooperation in the Baltic Sea region and energy security.
Their political talks are to focus primarily on issues relating to the development of the power sector and transport infrastructure, including the construction of the Via Baltica international expressway.
Bronislaw Koorowski is also to acquaint his hosts with the priorities of Poland’s EU presidency, beginning on 1 July.
President Komorowski is accompanied by his wife Anna.
They have been invited to Tallin and Tartu, where the presidential couple will visit the local university which had developed from a school of secondary level founded by Polish King and Grand Duke of Lithuania Stefan Batory in the 16th century.
While in Tartu, President Komorowski is to deliver a lecture on Polish foreign policy. The President and First Lady are also to meet with representatives of the Polish ethnic community in Estonia.
The visit to Tallin comes on the 90th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Poland and Estonia and the 20th anniversary of re-establishing official contacts after Estonia regained sovereignty following decades of post war communist rule and incorporation into the former USSR as a Soviet republic. (ss)