Stronger foreign force

The government will soon reveal its Program of Protection for Polish Work Emigrants. The project is designed to support Polish citizens with all the necessary consular services while they are away from Poland. The plan should be announced this week by Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga.

According to WBJ sources, new consulate offices will be established in Iceland's capital Reykjavik and the Sicilian city of Catania, where there have been significant increases in the number of Poles. Plans to establish another consulate office in Salonica, Greece's second-largest city, have also been discussed but for the moment this project lacks a definite timetable.

In addition, to meet immigrants' expectations, one of the cities in England's Midlands region will soon become home to a new Polish consulate office. Liverpool and Manchester are among those being considered by the Ministry.

In Dublin, the Polish consulate will soon be moved to a new location so it can provide better services to the more than 140,000 Poles living in Ireland. The London office, in which six Consuls have been serving England's entire Polish community, will also receive additional diplomats.

Besides establishing new consulate offices and increasing the number of diplomats, Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to launch a promotional campaign to inform Polish citizens where they can get help from when abroad.