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TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI
Tadeusz Mazowiecki (born 1927) - politician and journalist, lawyer .
One of the advisors to the Solidarity trade union in 1980, later editor of
the weekly 'Solidarność'. An active participant in the Round Table talks of
1989. First Prime Minister of the 3rd Republic of Poland (1989-90). Co-founder and one-
time leader of the Democratic Union Party, which later became the Freedom Union.
He was the Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights to the former
Yugoslavia in 1992-1995. In 1998 he was awarded the French Legion d'Honneur.
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