Mr Sikorski is glamorous, and not just by the rather modest standards of Central Europe. He claimed asylum in Britain as an 18-year-old after the declaration of martial law, helped out in a pub, was quickly accepted at Oxford to study philosophy, politics and economics and was soon befriending Margaret Thatcher and working as a war correspondent for the British media in Afghanistan and Angola.
By 1992, at the age of 29, he was already deputy Defence Minister of Poland. He picked up Cabinet positions in subsequent governments, and is currently Foreign Minister.
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