Concluded the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney Middle East tour external criticism of the status of freedoms in Russia, a new lapse committed by one of his aides while cursing the journalists.
In his first visit to a country that was part of the former Soviet Union, Romney pledged to establish close relations with Poland, which is still tense relationship with Russia after more than twenty years since the collapse of communism.
Romney praised the Polish leaders, describing them as "an example and defenders of freedom." "In Russia, have stalled progress towards the promises of freedom and open society."
On 24 funded / July Romney criticized the White House because of "abandoning his friends," as he put it in the area that is still cautious about Russia.
Today, Poland has a population of 38 million people, which succeeded in the process of peaceful transition, even if difficult from communism to capitalism in the year 1989, the economy booming in the European Union and the countries major role in NATO, where she participated in sending soldiers in the wars waged by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Romney said that "the American people is the greatest friend and ally of Poland .. and I think it's important that we support those who stood with the United States .. and facing America and Poland, the solidarity of the future."
But the Republican candidate to visit the last stop on his tour, which aims to polish his image and demonstrate its capabilities in foreign policy before the presidential elections due in November, was marred by verbal attack launched by one of his aides to journalists.
He lost his spokesman Rick Gorka his cool when the pressure on Romney journalists during a visit to a memorial to World War II in Warsaw on the lapses that characterized his visit to Israel and Britain.
Gorka and cursing during the prosecution of journalists Romney for answers, however, he contacted them after half an hour to apologize to them.
He complained a number of local journalists from their inability to get to Romney during the visit.
Romney was characterized by a tour of several lapses.
In Britain, the effects of Romney, who led the Winter Olympics in Utah, 2002, the resentments when he questioned the extent of security preparedness for the Olympics hosted by the London road.
The campaign was quick to deny that one of Romney's aides told a British newspaper that Obama does not understand the "Anglo-Saxon heritage" shared by Britain and the United States.
In Israel, he held high-level talks which supported "the right of Israel" in the elimination of Iran's nuclear ambitions, but it is subjected to sharp criticism from Palestinians when he announced that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish state.
On Monday, Romney won the acclaim of Gdansk Lech Walesa winning the Nobel Peace Prize, who led the Solidarity Party, who led the struggle against communist rule in the eighties.
However, the trade union Solidarity, which reached a negotiated end to the Soviet era peacefully in Poland in 1989 under the leadership of Walesa, has distanced itself from the Republican candidate.
Solidarity and wrote on its website that "the Solidarity union did not participate in any way in organizing the meeting did not take the initiative to call Romney to Poland."
She added: "Unfortunately the Americans are our friends told us at the headquarters of the Union, which represents more than 12 million workers support provided by the Romney attacks on trade unions and workers' rights."
The meeting with the former electricity worker Walesa, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983 after leading his union solidarity, opportunity for Romney to connect with American voters of the workers and the descendants of Polish origin.
Poles have long supported the Republicans, especially Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan "fighter of the Cold War," the strong support for the Solidarity union and his tough about Moscow.
In 2009, the Czech leader Walesa and the late anti-communist Vaclav Havel open letter criticized the review of the missile shield made by Obama in Poland and the Czech Republic.
And signed many of the leaders of the countries in the region issued a statement casting doubt on U.S. policy in th
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