Ex-Polish Prime Minister to lecture in Colombo 

Former Polish Prime Minister Lech Walesa, is expected to tour Sri Lanka soon todeliver a lecture.  The Asian Tribune reported that arrangements are being made in by Senaka Rajapakse, a resident of Poland and President of Sri Lankan Diaspora Group, to bring down Walesa, the historic Polish figure for a lecture tour in Colombo.
<p>Walesa, who served as the Polish Premier from 1990 to 1995, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and was the founder member of Solidarity (Solidarno), the first independent trade union behind Soviet bloc’s ‘Iron Curtain’. 
<p>Walesa who was an electrician by trade, had no higher education and became a trade-union activist after he began work at a Polish shipyard. He was thereafter persecuted by the Polish communist government, placed him under surveillance, and subsequently fired from his employment in 1976. Thereafter, he was arrested several times. In 1980 he was involved in the negotiations leading
to the ground-breaking Agreement” between the communist regime and the workers and co-founded the “Solidarity” union movement.