Journalist Jakub Wiech was excluded from the American IVLP programme due to the intervention of Polish politicians.
The decision to retreat the invitation provoked widespread outrage among Polish politicians and public opinion.
The case was considered a consequence of interior political conflicts and revenge as a journalist's publicist activity.
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Polish writer Jakub Wiech was invited by the State Department for a peculiar program – global Visitor Leadership Program. But as it turned out, just before we left his invitation has been cancelled. He says it's all due to the effort “a certain Polish political group”.
"A fewer weeks ago, I left for the United States at the invitation of the State Department as part of the global Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Just before the authoritative start of the program, I learned that my invitation was abruptly revoked" – Jakub Wiech said through the X service.
Polish writer “invited” from the program at the last minute. Indicates the cause
He added: “From unofficial sources, I know that this decision was sent out to the Americans by any Polish political group. In short, Poles turned to the American administration to prevent the Polish writer from participating in the program."
"I will remind you that in the IVLP it is the U.S. government that kind invited guests. After the nomination for the program, I passed the application process lasting respective weeks, participated in meetings, and received a peculiar visa. And erstwhile I was in the US, the invitation was revoked. “After a group from Poland started asking for it, the U.S. Department of State” describes Wiech.
The writer added that the reason for this decision has not been presented‘which is understandable in diplomacy’. He admitted that the unofficial findings show that the full intervention was motivated by political reasons. "It was a kind of retaliatory catering for my journalistic activity and it is simply a reflection of a conflict within 1 of the Polish public life environments," he writes. "As a result, Poland does not presently have representations in the IVLP concerning energy. However, our most crucial allies have a very interesting position on the interior situation on the Vistula river," he added.
The writer thanked the U.S. diplomatic staff who, in this situation, "showed professionalism, kindness and understanding." "I would besides like to thank all people who helped me see the situation – especially people from the world-view neighbourhood of this koteria with whom I have spoken, and who realize that a country where things like this happen sooner or later it will defeat itself“ He concluded.
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‘What an absolute embarrassment on many levels... Polish politicians asked the State Department to retreat the invitation to a Polish journalist. On a program he could only benefit from. Regardless of sympathy and antipathy, on the global stage, in practice, it is in specified situations that we should support and support our fellow countrymen. That is what patriotism is – not the 1 who shouts his right louder” – said the Minister of Energy. Love of Motyka.
He reacted even harder. Adrian Zandberg. ‘You should be a pathetic asshole.To do this kind of thing. It remains to congratulate the “patriots” on the influences in the Tsar's court...," he wrote on page X.
‘Disgusting tip against a Polish journalist. Shame." Krzysztof Brejza.
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