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The British announced yesterday that on the occasion of today’s Warsaw Pride and in token of solidarity with the Polish LGBT community the British embassy in Warsaw will fly the Rainbow flag just next to the UK flag. Ambassador Ric Todd has raised the flag yesterday, i.e. on Friday, at 4 p.m. and it will fly over the embassy till Monday morning. Last week the embassy in Rigue did the same thing. It is common for the Rainbow flag to fly from municipal buildings to mark Pride or other events, but it is thought that last week (in Rigue) marked the first time a British embassy has displayed it.

The UK remains committed to promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people overseas.

- said Mr Todd.

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Let me continue.

Because of this rather tense situation President Kaczyński decided to refer to his constitutional right. On 17 March he gave the address to the nation. I suppose most of You haven’t seen it, or maybe even heard of it. So now You have this unique chance. And believe me, You don’t need to understand it. Just listen to it. I will explain it afterwards. Enjoy:

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There has been much controversy about the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon in Poland during last few days. And about the address given by President Kaczyński, the address concerning the whole situation. Well, beyond all doubt that was a very interesting address. Technically. Besides, there are some politicians who brought themselves into discredit, there are some new slogans and another statements, which will probably be remembered in rather, hm, satirical contexts. To be honest, I don’t have much interest in politics, I don’t watch our government’s activities to closely. Maybe that’s because its activities have a rather bad influence on my already strained heart. Therefore, I don’t dare to analyse anything, I don’t dare to engage in any polemical discussion, I won’t even make any brilliant comments. I’m simply not competent enough. And I’m not going to pretend that I am. But what I’m going to do is to write some kind of summary of the latest, so interesting after all, events of March ‘08.

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