Ambassador Ashe visits Rzeszow and Malopolska

20 November 2007

Ambassador Victor Ashe and Consul General Anne Hall with new President of the Krakow City Council, Malgorzata Radwan-Ballada.  (more photos)

U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe visited the Rzeszow region on Tuesday, November 20, first by meeting with with Tadeusz Ferenc, Mayor of Rzeszow.  Later that morning, he traveled to Tarnow to meet with Mayor Ryszard Scigala, and to Dabrowa Tarnowska to meet with Mayor Stanislaw Poczatek.  In the afternoon he met with Stanislaw Gaworczyk, Mayor of Nowy Wisnicz, followed by short tour of the neighboring castle.  Before heading on to Krakow he stopped in Bochnia to meet with Mayor Bogdan Kosturkiewicz.  In Krakow he participated in a pre-Thanksgiving reception at the U.S. consulate, before a meeting with Janusz Onyszkiewicz at the Jewish Cultural Center, as part of their "Encounters with Jewish Culture: The European Union and Poland program. 

On Wednesday, November 21 Ambassador Ashe met with Malgorzata Radwan-Ballada, newly elected Krakow City Council Chairwoman.  He later addressed a group of Ukrainian judges participating in the U.S. Consulate's organized program “Partnership for Democracy,” at the Collegium Maius of Jagiellonian University.  The “Partnership for Democracy” program includes a 6 day study tour/seminar for 40 Ukrainian judges from various Ukrainian cities.  They will visit Administrative courts in Rzeszow, Krakow and Warsaw.