The Polish and the Bulgarian people are close because they know what it is to fight and achieve your freedom and independence, Andrzej Duda said
The relations between Bulgaria and Poland are excellent in all spheres because they are based on deep historical and cultural ties, on shared values and the friendship between our two peoples. This is what Rumen Radev said in the Polish Institute in Sofia today. There the Bulgarian President together with his wife Desislava Radeva and the Polish Head of State and his wife Agatha Kornhauser-Duda visited an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the restoration of Poland’s independence and the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and Bulgaria.
Rumen Radev noted that the Bulgarian people values every drop of blood shed by the Polish soldiers who died for the freedom of our country during the Russian-Turkish Liberation War and also the self-sacrifice of Vladislav Varnenchik and his soldiers. The President also highlighted Poland’s difficult historical road in the fight for independence. “In its history Poland has been torn and has resurrected. It is not by chance that the Poles call themselves “the people of free individuals.” The strive for freedom has given birth to the country’s contemporary success,” Rumen Radev said. The Head of State noted that events such as the exhibition in the Polish Institute in Sofia give us the opportunity to learn more about the Polish people and quoted Stanislaw Lem, who said that knowledge is irreversible and one cannot go back into the darkness of sweet ignorance.
The Bulgarian people has overcome a lot of obstacles to achieve its independence and therefore our two peoples are getting along with each other very well because they know what it is to have a free, independent, sovereign country, President Andrzej Duda said. He also noted how painful the five centuries of Ottoman rule were for the Bulgarians and the efforts that whole generations put into restoring the Bulgarian statehood during the Bulgarian National Revival.
Earlier in the day the wives of the Bulgarian and Polish presidents – Desislava Radeva and Agatha Kornhauser-Duda visited the Maichin Dom University Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Sofia. Within the visit the Braster system for early diagnosis of oncological diseases developed in Poland and also used in Bulgaria was presented. Our country is the first EU state that has implemented the system after Poland. Desislava Radeva and Agatha Kornhauser-Duda also toured the Ethnographic Institute with a museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Science in the capital.