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| | BBC News | EUROPE | Six European presidents at symbolic meeting |
 | | The presidents of five central European states, meeting in the Polish city of Gniezno, have been marking the one-thousandth anniversary of the recognition of the first Polish state. |
 | | The presidents of Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Poland began the day by celebrating an ecumenical mass in Gniezno's cathedral, but the main aim of the meeting is to advance the integration of former Communist countries into the European Union. |
 | | The ceremonies commemorate the meeting in the year 1000 of the German emperor, Otto the Third, and the man who united a group of Slavonic tribes into the Polish nation, Poland's Prince Boleslaw the Brave. |
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