Warsaw, May 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia has no plans to supply Syria with weapons beyond the current contracts that Moscow is honouring, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. US officials Thursday reiterated their call to Moscow to cut off arms sales to Syria, after media reports suggested that Russia was ready to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to the country. "Russia does not plan to sell," Lavrov told reporters.
Warsaw, April 30 (IANS) Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has fired Justice Minister Jaroslaw Gowin after the latter accused German scientists of buying and experimenting on embryos bought from Poland.
Warsaw, April 19 (IANS) A ceremony was held Friday here in the Polish capital to honour Jews who fought overwhelming Nazi German forces 70 years ago in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, BBC reported. Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in the city, where several hundred Jews battled the Nazis during World War II.
Warsaw, March 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Poland has supported the introduction of a visa-free regime between European Union countries and Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. "We are striving to include the citizens of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova, as well as Russia, in a visa-free system," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Wednesday in his annual message to parliament. The minister's comment came a day ahead of a delegation of European commissioners is expected to arrive in Moscow Thursday for talks that will focus on visas, among other major bilateral issues.
Warsaw, March 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Czech Republic has sent a group of 34 servicemen to Mali to join a military operation against Islamist militants. Czech news agency CTK said the senate voted to send a contingent of 50 military servicemen to Mali for a term of 15 months. Their mission will officially begin in April
Warsaw, Feb 6 (IANS/WAM) A UAE delegation led by Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, minister of economy, held a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw Wednesday for the first Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation between the UAE and Poland. The meetings coincided with the launch of an Emirates direct flight between Dubai and the Polish capital
Warsaw, Jan 14 (IANS) Ramayana, the great Indian epic, is now available in Polish language, courtesy Janusz Krzyzowski, an Indologist in Poland who has translated the monumental work.
Warsaw, Nov 26 (IANS) Alcohol use by expectant mothers can impair the mental and physical development of their babies, in what is known as foetal alcohol syndrome, show results available through advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Recently, researchers in Poland used three different MRI techniques to better define these effects
Warsaw, Nov 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Poland's law enforcement agencies foiled a terrorist attack against President Bronislaw Komorowski and top government organs earlier this month, officials have revealed. Investigators say a resident of the southern city of Krakow was plotting to attack "the Constitutional organs" of Poland during the Nov 11 Independence Day celebrations, in which Komorowski was taking part.
Warsaw, Nov 10 (IANS) Rich tributes were paid to the memory of late actress Smita Patil through a film festival in the Polish capital.
