Poland in New Zealand

On 10 April 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. On that very day the members of the official delegation were to participate in the ceremonies taking place in the Katyn War Cemetery, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crime committed there. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of the highest state authorities, representatives of various social circles and religious denominations, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All the flight passengers died in the air disaster which took place during landing at the airport near Smolensk.

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On 9-12 March 2020, Polish Ambassador Zbigniew Gniatkowski paid an official visit to the Kingdom of Tonga.

Read the full version of the Polish Ambassador’s letter to the New Zealand International Review, March-April issue, published by the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs in Wellington.

Wolves Summit is an international conference for start-ups, investors, and corporates. It focuses on networking and facilitating business development. The upcoming 11th edition will take place on: 24-25 March 2020 in Warsaw, Poland

Scholarships for the Polish diaspora are addressed to foreigners of Polish origin. They enable young people of Polish origin and holders of the Card of the Pole (Karta Polaka) to study in Poland (full-time programmes, in the Polish language) in higher education institutions supervised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Applications deadline is 16 March 2020.

Renata Vickrey, Archive Librarian and Prof. Ben Tyson, Department of Communication from Central Connecticut State University presented their research findings upon the assessment of the determinants of Polish identity among first and second-generation New Zealand-born individuals of Polish descent.

Delegation from the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk, including the Director dr Karol Nawrocki, visited New Zealand. The director gave a public lecture at the National Library and held a series of meetings with representatives of New Zealand cultural institutions. Meetings with the Polish Diaspora and film notations with witnesses of history were of special importance.

In the year of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Polish Embassy together with the National Library of New Zealand invite you to a special public lecture on the Second World War by Mr Karol Nawrocki, PhD, Director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland "The Beginning of Evil. Fighting and Suffering".

Polish Ambassador Zbigniew Gniatkowski participated in the official commemorations of Waitangi Day. This year marks the 180th anniversary of the signing of Waitangi Treaty by the British Crown and Maori tribe, which is seen as the founding document of New Zealand.