The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Warsaw - Some 200 youths from more than 20 nations visited the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on Tuesday as part of an event marking the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. For us Russians this is important, because w...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Warsaw - Some 200 youths from more than 20 nations visited the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on Tuesday as part of an event marking the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. For us Russians this is important, because w...
Financial24 (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
(WARSAW) - Poland's former Solidarity leader and ex-president Lech Walesa on Friday slammed China for calling off a summit with the European Union in a spat over a meeting with the Dalai Lama."The w
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Warsaw - Poland's former trade union leader Lech Walesa said Friday it was the height of insolence for China to call off a meeting with the European Union over French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to meet the Dalai Lama in Poland. The Tibetan s...
Phayul Latest News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... Lama on December 6 as part of an event honoring fellow Nobel peace prize winner Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Poland.(See pictures of the Dalai Lama's decades of spiritual leadership.)"China firmly opposes any contacts with the Dalai Lama by foreign leaders in whatever form," Qin said in a statement released by the state-run Xinhua news agency. "We hope that France could fulfill...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... to mark the 25th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to former Polish president Lech Walesa. French-Tibetan contacts provoked controversy with China earlier this year, when the French leg of the Olympic relay torch was the site of protests against Beijing's stance on Tibet. Sarkozy initially also planned to stay away from the opening ceremony of the games, but later...
Time (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... Lama on December 6 as part of an event honoring fellow Nobel peace prize winner Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Poland.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Peace laureates will attend a ceremony in northern Gdansk marking 25 years since Solidarity icon Lech Walesa was awarded that honour.During the visit to Prague, the Dalai Lama met former Czech President Vaclav Havel, his friend for a long time, as well as Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.Havel said the Tibet situation required "patience, endurance but also some vigilance, because certain...
Phayul Latest News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
His Holiness, along with several other past Nobel Prize winners, will attend a ceremony in northern Gdansk to mark 25 years since Solidarity icon and former Polish President Lech Walesa won the Nobel peace
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to attend a ceremony marking 25 years since Poland's anti-communist leader and former president Lech Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to attend a ceremony marking 25 years since Poland's anti-communist leader and former president Lech Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 5 - US unemployment statistics. 5 - Inter-regional Parliamentary Council meets in Luxembourg. 6 - Lech Walesa celebrates Nobel anniversary with other laureates (the Dalai Lama, Shimon Peres, FW De Klerk, Shirin Ebadi) in Poland. 6 - European Film Awards announced in Copenhagen. 6 - French (and EU) President Sarkozy meets Polish counterpart Kaczynski in Gdansk. 6 - Czech Civic Democratic...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... in Poland to mark the 25th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize to former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in the mountainous region, occupied by Chinese troops from 1950.
Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
On Wednesday, Beijing decided to delay the 11th Sino-EU Summit scheduled for Monday in France, which holds the rotating EU presidency. Paris announced earlier that Sarkozy would meet with the Dalai Lama at a Dec 6 ceremony in Poland to honor former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa.
Phayul Latest News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... of conferment of Nobel peace prize to former Polish president and anti-communist Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Former President Havel was the first head of state to extend an official invitation to His Holiness the Dalai Lama after becoming the first democratically elected President of Czechoslovakia after the fall of Communism in November 1989. In February 1990, His Holiness the...
