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"Community doesn't require homogeneity. Community doesn't require all its participants to be the same. On the contrary, a good community is a community capable of (...) appreciating all that is positive in difference, in that which differs people from one another in so many ways" - Komorowski said.
Komorowski wished the gathered guests success in resolving national and religious problems in a community spirit and reminded that Poland in the past was a country of multiple nations.
"We must continue learning, we must continue putting in energy and effort for a future in which community will be built upon respect for difference" - the president noted.
Warsaw metropolitan bishop Kazimierz Nycz, representing the Catholic Church, noted that the president's annual New Year receptions for Christians, Jews and Muslims had become a "beautiful tradition".
Also present were Poland's head Rabbi Michael Schudrich and Muslim Mufti Tomasz Miskiewicz, and Episcopate secretary bishop Wojciech Polak. (PAP)
Source: the official website of the President of the Republic of Poland - president.pl
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