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\u201cA man who had the courage to act wisely during Poland\u2019s crucial moments has died. We say thank you,\u201d said Polish President Bronis\u0142aw Komorowski, who appointed Tadeusz Mazowiecki his advisor in October 2010. \u201cMazowiecki was one of the founding fathers of our freedom and independence,\u201d added Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski speaking to the Polish media.
\nBorn in 1927 in P\u0142ock, Mazowiecki was an active participant and one of the architects of Poland\u2019s most important historical events.
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In 1957, he co-founded the Club of Catholic Intellectuals (KIK) and the Catholic social and political monthly Wi\u0119\u017a, becoming its editor-in-chief. In 1961-72, he was deputy to the Polish People\u2019s Republic\u2019s Sejm from the Catholic group \u201cZnak\u201d. In 1968 he lodged an interpellation criticising brutal Militia actions against striking students. The Polish communist authorities regarded Mazowiecki as inconvenient and opposed his standing for re-election to the Sejm in 1972.
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In 1975-81, Mazowiecki supported workers\u2019 strikes against communist authorities. On 20 August 1980, he signed the Appeal of 64 intellectuals in support of the strike in the Gda\u0144sk Shipyard and, together with Bronis\u0142aw Geremek, went to Gda\u0144sk to deliver the appeal to the striking shipyard workers. At the invitation of Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa, he became the head of the Commission of Experts of the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee that supported negotiations with the Polish People\u2019s Republic\u2019s authorities. Appointed editor-in-chief of TygodnikSolidarno\u015b\u0107, Mazowiecki was detained on 13 December 1981 \u2013 the day martial law was imposed in Poland. He was one of the last detainees to be freed in December 1982.
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In the 1980s, he was one of Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa\u2019s closest advisors. In 1988, he joined the official Group of Advisors of the National Executive Committee of NSZZ \u201cSolidarno\u015b\u0107\u201d and negotiated between the striking Gda\u0144sk Shipyard workers and the Polish People\u2019s Republic\u2019s authorities. After the negotiations broke down, he stayed on until the strike was called off. Mazowiecki took part in the Round Table plenary talks that started Poland\u2019s political transformation and was one of the main architects of the agreement that led to Poland\u2019s first partially free elections on 4 June 1989.
\nOn 19 August 1989, he was appointed prime minister of the Polish People\u2019s Republic. Within a few months, his cabinet changed the political system, enacted civil and political rights, a multi-party system, changed the national emblem and the name of the state.
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In 1991, one month before the end of his term of office, Mazowiecki became head of a new political party \u2013 the Democratic Union, which won a majority of seats in first democratic elections to the Sejm.
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In 1992, appointed Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights for the Former Yugoslavia, Mazowiecki resigned in protest against inactivity of the great powers and published a report on human rights violations by all sides of the conflict. In the 1997 Sejm elections, he won his third parliamentary mandate.
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In 2005, he co-founded the Democratic Party – demokraci.pl. In October 2010, he was appointed advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland Bronis\u0142aw Komorowski.
\nAwarded the highest state honours: Order of the White Eagle and the Gold Medal of Merit for Culture Gloria Artis, among others.<\/p>\n
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