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The foreign minister told the BBC he had decided Russia's presence in Poland must be "further curtailed" and that Russia's consulate in Krakow had now been closed in order to try and make it harder for Moscow to "spy" on Poland.

From there he caught a flight to Krakow then boarded a bus to Ternopil, where he joined up with the International Legion and underwent a basic training programme lasting about four weeks.

Visiting the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow, which he opened 17 years ago, the King said the Krakow Jewish community had been "reborn" from the ashes of the Holocaust, and that building a kinder and more compassionate world for future generations was the "sacred task of us all".

Speaking in Krakow on 27 January 2005 he noted:

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