{"id":61597,"date":"2015-09-16T16:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=999ff6ec7c4b87e8c2857d5b7385f011"},"modified":"2015-09-16T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:40:28","slug":"news-story-uk-and-poland-honour-veterans-during-the-president-of-the-republic-of-polands-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61597","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK and Poland honour veterans during the President of the Republic of Poland&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Visiting the UK, President Andrzej Duda met with a number of World War Two veterans and serving British personnel with Polish heritage at a reception at Lancaster House.<\/p>\n<p>During the reception, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon thanked Polish veterans for their historic contribution during the Battle of Britain and throughout the Second World War, which saw 15 operational squadrons of Polish pilots serving under RAF command.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polish World War Two veterans\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/43809\/Polishreception2.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Polish World War Two veterans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Defence Secretary also took the opportunity to celebrate the UK\u2019s friendship with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/world\/poland\">Poland<\/a> and its continued commitment to promoting stability around the world as a leading member of the NATO alliance. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the reception, the Defence Secretary said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019re honoured that President Duda chose the UK as one of his first countries to visit, joining us to greet heroic World War 2 veterans each with a story to tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">70 years on from the end of World War 2 we celebrate Poland\u2019s overall contribution and the continuing closeness of our friendship today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State for Defence and the President of the Republic of Poland paid tribute to the contribution made by Polish veterans during World War Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}