On Sunday morning, talks between the delegations of the presidents of Poland and Lithuania – Karol Nawrocki and Gitanas Nauseda – began at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius, as part of the Polish leader’s working visit to the country. See the gallery from the Polish president’s visit to Lithuania.
President Karol Nawrocki and his wife, Marta Nawrocka, are paying a working visit to Lithuania on Sunday. In Vilnius, together with the presidents of Lithuania and Ukraine, Gitanas Nauseda and Volodymyr Zelensky, and their spouses, they will take part in the celebrations marking the 163rd anniversary of the January Uprising.
On Sunday morning, the Polish presidential couple were welcomed by President Nauseda and his wife in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace in Vilnius. Plenary talks between the delegations, led by Nawrocki and Nauseda, then began.
Next, the Polish presidential couple, together with the presidents of Lithuania and Ukraine and their spouses, will attend a Holy Mass at Vilnius Cathedral. During the ceremony, speeches are planned by Presidents Nauseda, Nawrocki and Zelensky.
In the afternoon, the presidential couples will take part in a ceremony at the Rasos Cemetery commemorating the anniversary of the outbreak of the January Uprising. Karol and Marta Nawrocki will also lay wreaths at the Mausoleum of the Mother and the Son’s Heart, where Józef Piłsudski’s mother, Maria Piłsudska, is buried, as well as his heart.
After 5 p.m. local time (4 p.m. in Warsaw), a meeting of Presidents Nawrocki, Nauseda and Zelensky with media representatives is scheduled.
According to presidential minister Marcin Przydacz, the main topics of the presidents’ talks during the visit will be the current security situation and the ongoing peace negotiations concerning Ukraine. Przydacz noted that the context of the talks in Vilnius would be “historic and unifying”. He added that bilateral issues – Polish-Lithuanian or Polish-Ukrainian – may also be discussed, including the situation of the Polish minority in Lithuania and, in the Ukrainian context, historical matters.