1. Belarusians in Poland are a part of our community, calling cities such as Cracow, Gdansk, Warsaw, and many others home.

2. Strikes occurred, but none as portentous as the strike in the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk that began on August 19

3. In addition to the above, three part time Hindi Teachers are also taking classes in three cities in Poland (Warsaw, Gdansk and Krakow), with ICCR funding.

4. Balthasar Salinus, born 1587 in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) was the son of Casparus Salinus, notary public in Marienburg in Polish Prussia (dead 1621 or 1622) and his wife Apollonia Sohn

5. The car number plates that can be seen along the main axis of the Berlin district Tiergarten the night before the Love Parade come from all over Germany, but also from far afield: Poznan, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Szczecin, Katowice, Cracow, Warsaw.

6. Representatives of the Italian, Polish and Russian points of contact, within the third session, shared their experience in dealing with different accidents in the past: a harbour accident in Sardinia; an accident in the Gdansk Refinery; and large-scale oil spills in the Russian Federation