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Polish president meets ex-Olympians from Three Seas Initiative states

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Grzegorz Siwicki 28.09.2018 16:40
The Polish president on Friday met former Olympic athletes from 12 European countries that aim to work together as part of the Three Seas regional cooperation initiative.
President Andrzej Duda (centre) meets the former Olympic athletes at the presidential palace in Warsaw on Friday. Photo: PAP/Leszek SzymańskiPresident Andrzej Duda (centre) meets the former Olympic athletes at the presidential palace in Warsaw on Friday. Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański

Hosting the Olympians at the presidential palace in Warsaw, President Andrzej Duda thanked them for building friendships among nations.

He noted that former Olympic athletes from countries between the Black, Baltic and Adriatic Seas were meeting at an international syposium in the Polish capital as Poland this year marks the centennial of its independence.

Duda referred to Halina Konopacka, a Polish athlete who won the women’s discus throw event at the Amsterdam Summer Games to become the first Polish Olympic champion 90 years ago.

He noted that most of the Three Seas Initiative countries were once behind the Iron Curtain, when they were not fully free. He said that some of the European athletes who once won Olympic medals for their countries fought not just for medals, but, in a sense, for freedom.

"Thanks to your successes, thanks to the successes of our athletes, we felt proud, we heard our national anthems played, we saw our heroes out there," he said.

The Polish-led Three Seas Initiative aims to boost infrastructure, energy and economic cooperation as well as political ties among 12 countries between the Black, Baltic and Adriatic Seas.

The initiative brings together Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.

(gs/pk)

Source: IAR/PAP

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