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The ultra-conservative Polish government on Friday (July 19th) criticized the support of the US ambassador to LGBTs, saying her statement against the distribution of homophobic stickers was " useless ". A new episode in the series of tensions between Warsaw and the United States.
With our correspondent in Warsaw , Thomas Giraudeau
" We are all equal ": the expression tweeted Thursday, July 18 by Georgette Mosbacher did not please the ultraconservatives to power in Warsaw. The American ambassador has criticized the homophobic stickers that Gazeta Polska wants to distribute massively, a weekly very right, support of the Law and Justice party and the current government.
Jestem rozczarowana i zaniepokojona tym, pee pewne grupy wykorzystują naklejki do promowania nienawiści i nietolerancji. Szanujemy wolność słowa, ale musimy wspólnie stać po stronie takich wartości jak różnorodność i tolerancja. # WszyscyJesteśmyRówni
Georgette Mosbacher (@USAmbPoland) 18 July 2019The executive was nevertheless dissociated from Gazeta Polska's project. But did not appreciate the intervention of the American ambassador: in a short and dry response from the spokesman of the government in Warsaw, he described the statement as " useless " because it does not affect relations between United States and Poland.
The case is not going to fix the image of Georgette Mosbacher in Warsaw. Having been in office for less than a year, the diplomat has already made a name for herself by stating that she would defend the freedom of the press and journalists in the first place. Criticizing the Polish government.
The latter has already taken over public television and wants to " repolonize the media ". In the viewfinder, especially, a private television, favorable to the opposition, and owned today by the American Discovery.
At the end of November 2018, Georgette Mosbacher also declared that " the attacks of the ruling party on the freedom of the media could blur good relations with the United States ".