A record-breaking number of 45 signatures on the letter of support for the Equality Parade! Thank you!
The 2017 Equality Parade is going to be special and not just because of the new formula and new attractions. It is our pleasure and honor to inform you that Ambassadors of 40 countries on 6 continents, as well as 5 representatives of institutions that are significant to us in terms of our demands, have expressed their support to the greatest celebration of equality in Poland. It is a record-breaking number so far. It makes us glad especially because it is due to the commitment and support from foreign diplomatic posts in Poland – in the financial aspect as well – that we can organize the event in our dream form and exactly as we had planned. Several delegations of the embassies’ representatives and their families have announced that they are willing to participate in the Parade.
On Tuesday May 30th President of Equality Foundation Julia Maciocha along with two coordinators of the Equality Voluntary collected the letter of support from His Excellency Thomas M. Buchsbaum, the Ambassador of Austria. “It is extremely important to us that our foreign Allies support the Equality Parade with their voices. It is a shame that such a strong representation of the diplomatic corps from 40 countries seems to be lost on the city authorities although they could act as a host of the event” Julia Maciocha said.
The entire group of the Equality Voluntary, the organizers of Equality Parade, would like to thank all of the employees of the Embassy of Austria as well as His Excellency Thomas M. Buchsbaum most kindly for the fruitful collaboration.
The following diplomats have signed the letter of support:
HE Shpresa Kureta, Ambassador of Albania
HE Patricia Beatriz Salas, Ambassador of Argentina
HE Paul Wojciechowski, Ambassador of Australia
HE Thomas M. Buchsbaum, Ambassador of Austria
HE Colette Taquet, Ambassador of Belgium
HE Alfredo Leoni, Ambassador of Brazil
HE Stephen de Boer, Ambassador of Canada
HE Alfredo García Castelblanco, Ambassador of Chile
HE Isabel Montero de la Cámara, Ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica
HE Petros Kestoras, Ambassador of Cyprus
HE Jakub Karfík, Ambassador of the Czech Republic
HE Ole Egberg Mikkelsen, Ambassador of Denmark
He Harri Tiido, Ambassador of Estonia
HE Hanna Lehtinen, Ambassador of Finland
HE Pierre Lévy, Ambassador of France
HE Rolf Nikel, Ambassador of Germany
HE Evangelos Tsaoussis, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic
HE Gerard Keown, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland
HE Anna Azari, Ambassador of the State of Israel
HE Alessandro De Pedys, Ambassador of Italy
HE Shigeo Matsutomi, Ambassador of Japan
HE Conrad Bruch, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
HE Natasha Meli Daudey, Ambassador of Malta
HE Alejandro Negrín, Ambassador of Mexico
HE Ljiljana Tošković, Ambassador of Montenegro
HE Ronald van Dartel, Ambassador of the Netherlands
HE Wendy Hinton, Ambassador of New Zealand
HE Karsten Klepsvik, Ambassador of Norway
HE João Silva Leitão, Ambassador of Portugal
HE Robert Krmelj, Ambassador of Slovenia
HE Simon Jabulani Ntombela, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa
HE Agustín Núñez Martínez, Ambassador of Spain
HE Inga Eriksson Fogh, Ambassador of Sweden
HE Andrej Motyl, Ambassador of Switzerland
HE Andrii Deshchytsia, Ambassador of Ukraine
HE Jonathan Knott, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
HE Paul Jones, Ambassador of the United States of America
HE Pablo Scheiner, Ambassador of Uruguay
HE Luis Gómez Urdaneta, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
HE Vu Dang Dung, Ambassador of Vietnam
Yves Wantens, General Representative of the Government of Flanders
Franck Pezza, Representative of the Government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
Marek Prawda, Head Representative of the European Commission in Poland
Michael Georg Link, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Anna-Carin Öst, Representative, UNHCR Representation in Poland