Jaroslaw Kaczynski: Unveiling my brother's monument in Batumi proof Georgian-Polish friendship is “becoming stronger”

Unveiling my brother's monument is an example and proof that the connection and friendship between Georgia and Poland is "becoming stronger and closer", a letter from Jaroslaw Kaczynski said after the tribute to the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski was unveiled in Batumi on Thursday. 

In the letter released to mark the occasion, Jaroslaw Kaczynski thanked institutions and agencies that did "everything possible" to open the monument in Georgia's Black Sea city.

It is a great moment for me that a monument to my brother, Lech Kaczynski, was unveiled in Batumi, Georgia. Citizens of Georgia, your country took a very large place in my brother's activities. Lech Kaczynski could risk to prove his support for Georgia”, the letter says.

Kaczynski stressed his brother had "convinced everyone" during his lifetime that Georgia was entitled to decide its own political path of European integration. 

Georgian and Polish Prime Ministers on Thursday unveiled the monument to the late Lech Kaczynski, who died in 2010.