The minister’s first stop will be the former Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, where Poles, including hundreds of priests, accounted for the biggest group of those who were imprisoned and killed there. Minister Szynkowski vel Sęk will lay a wreath at the memorial to the camp victims. Furthermore, he will hold talks in Munich on the prospects for Polish-Bavarian cooperation with Melanie Huml, Bavarian State Minister for European and International Affairs, and Karl Freller, Vice-President of the Bavarian State Parliament and Director of the Bavarian Memorial Foundation. 

On the second day of his German visit, Minister Szynkowski vel Sęk will travel to North Rhine-Westphalia. At the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia in Dusseldorf, he will have talks with Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner, Minister for Federal, European and International Affairs, and will also meet with Andre Kuper, President of the State Parliament, whom he will join for a virtual opening of a Visegrad Group poster exhibition. While in Düsseldorf, Minister Szynkowski vel Sęk will also attend a session of the parliamentary group “Poland, Central and Eastern Europe, Baltic States.” Finally, Minister Szynkowski vel Sęk together with Józef Malinowski, President of the Union of Poles in Germany, will visit the Polish House in Bochum, which—after the necessary renovation works—will serve the Polish community in Germany.

 

MFA Press Office