Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a one-day state visit to Poland on 21 August en route to Ukraine, as he seeks to deepen ties with the European Union country where a Defence Attache was appointed earlier this year after decades.
This visit will be part of his two-nation trip in which he will be going also to Ukraine.
This is the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Poland, after Morarji Desai in 1979. Before that both Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi had visited the country.
He will also visit the tomb of the unknown and the memorial for the Battle of Monte Cassino. Poles and Indians were part of the large allied coalition in the 1944 major battles of Tobruk and Monte Cassino.
The Battle of Monte Cassino was one of the toughest battles fought by Indian soldiers during World War II and Sepoy Kamal Ram of 3/8 Punjab Regiment was awarded the Victoria Cross.