Ambasador Pakistanu z wizytą na PW

Współpraca w zakresie wymiany studentów, doktorantów i pracowników naukowych była głównym tematem spotkania z Ambasadorem Pakistanu w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej Malikiem Muhammadem Farooqem. Ambasador rozmawiał z Rektorem PW prof. dr. hab. inż. Krzysztofem Zarembą, Prorektorem ds. Nauki prof. dr. hab. inż. Mariuszem Malinowskim i Dyrektorem Centrum Współpracy Międzynarodowej Grzegorzem Robakiem.

2021/09/30

Wizyta ambasadora Mołdawii w Gdyni

Ambasador Republiki Mołdawii – Igor Bodiu był w dniu 17.09.2021 roku gościem Katarzyny Gruszeckiej-Spychały – wiceprezydent Gdyni ds. gospodarki. Podczas spotkania towarzyszył mu Jacek Tymiński – konsul honorowy Republiki Mołdawii. Rozmowa dotyczyła m.in współpracy gospodarczej w naszym regionie.

2021/09/30

J.E. Chettaphan Maksamphan, Ambasador Tajlandii na Ukrainie spotkał się z J.E. Tarasem Kachka, Wiceministrem Rozwoju Gospodarczego, Handlu i Rolnictwa

W dniu 7 września 2021 r. J.E. Chettaphan Maksamphan, Ambasador Tajlandii na Ukrainie z siedzibą w Warszawie, spotkał się z J.E. Tarasem Kachka, Wiceministrem Rozwoju Gospodarczego, Handlu i Rolnictwa. Omówiono sposoby promowania dwustronnej współpracy handlowej poprzez ważne mechanizmy, takie jak Wspólny Komitet ds. Handlu (JTC), a także poprzez działania promujące możliwości handlowe dla obu stron wraz z partnerami, w szczególności Ukraińską Izbą Handlowo-Przemysłową (UCCI) w ramach obchodów 30-lecia stosunków dyplomatycznych.

2021/09/30

39. zagraniczne przedstawicielstwo w Krakowie działa już oficjalnie

Inauguracja Konsulatu Honorowego Kolumbii w Krakowie, w której udział wziął Prezydent Jacek Majchrowski, odbyła się 15 września.2021 roku. Licznie zgromadzonych przedstawicieli krakowskich placówek dyplomatycznych, instytucji, urzędów i uczelni na uroczystości witali Jego Ekscelencja Ambasador Kolumbii w Polsce Javier Darío Higuera Ángel oraz nowo mianowana konsul Joanna Wajs.

2021/09/30

J.E. Chettaphan Maksamphan, Ambasador Tajlandii na Ukrainie z siedzibą w Warszawie spotkał się z Gennadijem Czyżykowem, Prezesem Ukraińskiej Izby Przemysłowo-Handlowej (UCCI).

W dniu 6 września 2021 r. J.E. Chettaphan Maksamphan, Ambasador Tajlandii na Ukrainie z siedzibą w Warszawie spotkał się z Gennadijem Czyżykowem, Prezesem Ukraińskiej Izby Przemysłowo-Handlowej (UCCI). Obie strony omówiły plan dalszego wzmocnienia więzi handlowych między dwoma krajami poprzez wykorzystanie w przyszłym roku obchodów 30-lecia stosunków dyplomatycznych.

2021/09/30

Independence day of the Republic of Botswana

Botswana, country in the centre of Southern Africa. The territory is roughly triangular—approximately 600 miles (965 km) from north to south and 600 miles from east to west—with its eastern side protruding into a sharp point. Its eastern and southern borders are marked by river courses and an old wagon road; its western borders are lines of longitude and latitude through the Kalahari, and its northern borders combine straight lines with a river course. Within the confines of Botswana’s borders is a rich variety of wildlife, including many species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Before its independence in 1966, Botswana was a British protectorate known as Bechuanaland. It was also one of the poorest and least-developed states in the world. The country is named after its dominant ethnic group, the Tswana (“Bechuana” in older variant orthography). Since its independence the Republic of Botswana has gained international stature as a peaceful and increasingly prosperous democratic state. It is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth, the African Union (AU), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The secretariat of SADC is housed in the capital of Botswana, Gaborone (until 1969 spelled Gaberones—i.e., Gaborone’s town, after the tribal chief who had his capital at the site during the colonial period). Land Botswana is bounded by Namibia to the west and north (the Caprivi Strip), Zambia and Zimbabwe to the northeast, and South Africa to the southeast and south. The Zambezi River border with Zambia is only several hundred yards long. The border along the main channel of the Chobe River up to the Zambezi was disputed with Namibia until a 1999 ruling by the International Court of Justice favoured Botswana. The point at which the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe meet in the middle of the river has never been precisely determined. Relief Botswana extends from the Chobe River (which drains through the Zambezi to the Indian Ocean) in the north to the Molopo River (part of the Orange River system, which flows into the Atlantic) in the south. To the east it is bordered by the Limpopo River and its tributaries, the Ngotwane (Notwani), Marico (Madikwe), and Shashe. The country has a mean altitude of 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) and consists largely of a sand-filled basin, with gently undulating plains rising to highlands in neighbouring countries. The highest point is 4,888 feet (1,490 metres) in the hills north of Lobatse in southeastern Botswana; the lowest point is 2,170 feet (660 metres) at the country’s easternmost point, in the Limpopo valley. The country is divided into three main environmental regions. The hardveld region consists of rocky hill ranges and areas of shallow sand cover in eastern Botswana. The sandveld region is the area of deep Kalahari sand covering the rest of the country. The third region consists of ancient lake beds superimposed on the northern sandveld in the lowest part of the Kalahari Basin. Geologic exploration has been limited by the depth and extent of Kalahari sand covering the surface geology. The rock groups underlying most of the sandveld are therefore the least-known but appear to be the youngest, belonging to the Karoo (Karroo) System, formed 290 to 208 million years ago. Elsewhere, Precambrian rock formations predominate. The surface geology of the eastern hardveld, exposed in its hill ranges, largely consists of basement complex rocks (more than 2.5 billion years old) intruding from northern South Africa and southern Zimbabwe. This complex is known to extend into younger rock formations (2.5 to 1.2 billion years old) in the extreme southern sandveld, while rocks of the Ghanzi and Damara groups (1.2 billion to 570 million years old) extend across the northwest corner of the country into northern Namibia. Drainage Drainage through the marshes of the Okavango delta is complex and imperfectly understood. The perennial Okavango River runs southward into its delta across the Caprivi Strip from the highlands of Angola. Most of its water evaporates from the 4,000 square miles (10,000 square km) of the delta wetlands. Floodwater reaches down through the eastern side of the marshes to the Boteti River, which flows sporadically to Lake Xau (Dow) and the Makgadikgadi Pans (also roughly 4,000 square miles in area). Less and less water flowed through the western side of the Okavango marshes during the 20th century, so that the 70-square-mile (180-square-km) Lake Ngami—famous a century ago—is today dry and almost unrecognizable as a lake. Meanwhile, the eastern Makgadikgadi Pans are flooded annually by the otherwise ephemeral Nata River from the Zimbabwe highlands, while the southern tributaries of the pans are now dry fossil valleys. The Molopo River and its Ramatlhabama tributary, on the southern border of Botswana with a course flowing into the Orange River, today rarely flood more than 50 miles (80 km) from their sources. Most rivers in Botswana are ephemeral channels, usually not flowing aboveground except in the summer rainy season. The two great exceptions to this rule are vigorous channels fed by the rains of central Africa—the Okavango River above its delta and the Chobe River flowing through its marshes along the northern border to join the Zambezi above the Victoria Falls. Soils The soils of the eastern hardveld consist of moderately dry red loamy mokata soils on the plains, or mixed chalky and sandy chawana soils, with brownish rocky seloko soils on and around hills. Seloko soils are considered best for grain crops. The fertility of all soils is limited by the amount of rainfall, which is sometimes inadequate on the hardveld and regularly unable to support any cultivation on the sandveld. The alluvial soils of the ancient lake beds include gray loamy soils in the wetlands, gray-green saline soils on the pans, gray clayish soils to yellowish sandy soils around the wetlands, and very chalky light gray soils around the pans. There are also areas of gray to black cracking clay in former wet areas, such as those around Pandamatenga. Climate of Botswana The annual climate ranges from months of dry temperate weather during winter to humid subtropical weather interspersed with drier periods of hot weather during summer. In summer, which lasts from October to March, temperatures rise to about 93 °F (34 °C) in the extreme north and southwest, the warmest parts of the country. In winter, which lasts from April to September, there is frequent frost at night, and temperatures may fall to near freezing in some high-altitude areas during the day. Summer is heralded by a windy season, the winds carrying dust from the Kalahari, from about late August to early October. Annual rainfall, brought by winds from the Indian Ocean, averages 18 inches (460 mm), representing a range from 25 inches (635 mm) in the extreme northeast to less than 5 inches (127 mm) in the extreme southwest. The rains are almost entirely limited to summer downpours between December and March, which also mark the season for plowing and planting. Cyclic droughts, often lasting up to five or six years in every two decades, can limit or eliminate harvests and reduce livestock to starvation. Plant and animal life The Kalahari sandveld has often been called “thirstland” to distinguish it from true desert. Even in its southwestern corner, where there are some bare sand dunes, the vegetation is more characteristic of dry steppe than desert. The general vegetation of the country is savanna grassland with yellow or light brown grass cover (turning green after rains) and woody plants. The savanna ranges from acacia shrub savanna in the southwest through acacia thornbush and tree savanna “parkland” into denser woodland and eventually forest as one moves north and east. Croton and Combretum tree savanna is found on the rocky hills of the eastern hardveld. Acacia tree savanna merges northward into mopane (African ironwood) savanna woodland. Mopane woodland covers most of the northern and eastern third of the country, with the exception of the open grasslands immediately surrounding the Okavango delta and Makgadikgadi Pans. Animal life is extremely varied in a thirstland environment. About 150 species of mammals are found in Botswana. These range from 30 species of bats and 27 of rodents to more than 30 species of large mammals. Birdlife is prolific, with more than 460 species. Botswana has a great variety of reptiles and amphibians, of which more than 200 species have been described in detail. The principal fish, in the rivers of the north, are tilapia (African bream), catfish, and the tigerfish, which is famous for its ferocious resistance to being caught on a line. There are several national parks and game reserves in Botswana, including the Central Kalahari Game Reserve—the largest reserve in the country and home to such animals as lions, black-backed jackals, elephants, foxes, ostriches, springboks, and zebras. Others include Chobe National Park, the Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve, and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, a conservation area jointly managed by Botswana and South Africa. More: Score: https://www.britannica.com/place/Botswana

2021/09/30

W rezydencji Ambasadora Szwecji odbyła się uroczystość wręczenia Orderu Gwiazdy Polarnej Barbarze Gawryluk

9 września 2021 roku w rezydencji Ambasadora Szwecji odbyła się uroczystość wręczenia Orderu Gwiazdy Polarnej (Nordstjärneorden) Barbarze Gawryluk. Za liczne zasługi na polu promowania i udostępniania szwedzkiej literatury i kultury w Polsce szwedzka Kapituła Królewska odznaczyła Barbarę Gawryluk Krzyżem Kawalerskim klasy I Orderu Gwiazdy Polarnej (w skali pięcioklasowej orderu klasa IV).

2021/09/29

Ambasador Chin w Polsce Sun Linjiang spotkał się z Podsekretarzem Stanu w Ministerstwie Spraw Zagranicznych RP Marcinem Przydaczem.

W dniu 15 września 2021 roku Ambasador Chin w Polsce Sun Linjiang spotkał się z Podsekretarzem Stanu w Ministerstwie Spraw Zagranicznych Marcinem Przydaczem. Podsekretarz Stanu pozytywnie ocenił dynamikę rozwoju stosunków polsko-chińskich i głęboką przyjaźń, jaka łączy przywódców naszych państw. Wyraził chęć współpracy z Chinami w celu działania na rzecz dalszego rozwoju stosunków polsko-chińskich. Marcin Przydacz powitał Ambasadora Sun Linjiang'a na jego nowym stanowisku i zapewnił, że Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych jest gotowe udzielić wsparcia i pomocy Ambasadorowi w jego nowej misji.

2021/09/29

Wizyta Ambasadora Japonii w Krotoszynie

19 września 2021 roku oficjalną wizytę w naszym mieście złożył Ambasador Nadzwyczajny i Pełnomocny Japonii w RP Akio Miyajima wraz z I Sekretarz Ambasady Japonii w Polsce Michiko Makino. W spotkaniu uczestniczyli także przedstawiciele Urzędu Marszałkowskiego Województwa Wielkopolskiego: Marszałek Województwa Wielkopolskiego Marek Woźniak, Dyrektor Biura Współpracy Międzynarodowej Anna Markiewicz, pracownik Biura Współpracy Międzynarodowej Michał Kolasiński.

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