We do hope we get people in Poland engaged and excited about our respective countries, Ireland and Kosova. Thank you for the visit, dear Patrick! 🇽🇰🤝🇵🇱🤝🇮🇪

I was happy to accompany a group of legal, judicial, and media officials including the Chair of the Kosovar Judicial Council Mr. Albert Zogaj, CoE Expert Ms. Flutura Kusari, & judges & officials from our Ministry of Justice.

and w/ my participation w/ entrepreneur Shpend F. Ahmeti at Impact World Update in Warsaw in Sept 2025, moving toward greater & better joint initiatives.

Kosova is in Poland w/ its dynamic entrepreneurship & strong ambition for economic growth & job creation in 🇽🇰, in cooperation w/ 🇵🇱!

With Impact CEE, as #KosovainPoland, we will continue our partnership and cooperation, following the successful visit of Impact CEE leaders — Krystian Wolak (CEO), Joanna Kasprowicz (Vice President), and Marta Liberska (Chief Content Officer) — to Prishtina in July–August 2025… 2/

I thank the Rector and Chancellor Paweł Sroczyński for their warm hospitality.

There are unique connections in music between #Kosova and #Poland, but we must deepen them further—with more of our students at UMFC and at the Music Academies of 🇵🇱, more exchanges between professors and artists, and more musical events from 🇵🇱 in 🇽🇰 and from 🇽🇰 in 🇵🇱. And we will make it happen! /2

In conclusion, listen here to the National Anthem of Kosova, by Mendi Mengjiqi: youtu.be/jzf2jeMKEhk?...

It is an honor for me to highlight, remember, and cultivate this special bond as a foundation stone—a very strong foundation stone—for the relations we are building as #KosovainPoland, and for which I have the honor to build as Kosova’s first Ambassador designated as Chief of Mission in Poland. /6

last night the dignified Mrs. Penderecka emphasized the same with superlatives during our meeting in Warsaw. I was fortunate to meet and speak with Mrs. Penderecka at one of her emblematic festivals at the Royal Łazienki Museum. /5

Their special academic and professional connection was also a personal one, as Mengjiqi became close to the family, to Penderecki himself and his wife, the great promoter of classical music, Elżbieta Penderecka. Professor Mengjiqi shared this with me during our meeting in Prishtina, and…/4

was a distinguished and promising student of renowned Polish and global composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The Academy of Music in Kraków that today bears Penderecki’s name was where Mengjiqi studied for his master’s degree under Penderecki’s supervision and earlier as a student of Zbigniew Bujarski. 3/

This summer I had the honor and special pleasure of meeting our great composer, the author of the national anthem of Kosova, Mendi Mengjiqi. Mengjiqi, the distinguished professor of many generations of promising Kosovar composers…/2

…thus at #KosovainPoland we will work closely w/ LOT to make travel more pleasant, quicker, & easier btw Kosova & Poland, be that for business or pleasure. I greatly enjoy flying LOT & hope to soon fly direct from Warsaw to Prishtina & back. #flyLOT

Growth since 2015 is significant w/ 2025 on pace to be the best year yet. We’d of course like to increase Ex & Im! 🇽🇰📈🇵🇱