Announcement of the government delegation to Britain came hours after two Polish men were assaulted in a British town, following a vigil for a fellow Pole killed in August.
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Witnesses reported the two men, who are both in their 30s, were attacked by a group of four or five males.
Police said the attack on the two Poles was a “potential hate crime” and one victim suffered a broken nose, the other a cut to his head.
The 40-year-old and another Polish man were set upon outside a row of takeaway shops in what Essex Police believe was an unprovoked attack at around 11.35pm.
“Although we are considering this matter as a potential hate crime, it is not being linked with the attack at The Stow last weekend”.
Officers were called to a pub in Harlow, Essex, at around 3.35am this morning.
Detectives are treating the murder of Arkadiusz Jozwik as a hate crime, “but at this stage there are several other strands we need to look at and we can not eliminate those other lines of enquiry from the investigation”.
“There will be an increased number of visible policing patrols in Harlow to both reassure and protect the community”. While police are investigating whether it was a hate crime, they say the motive is still not clear.
On Saturday around 700 protesters marched in silence through Harlow carrying the Polish flag.
“I wanted to show solidarity with the Polish and immigrant community in Harlow as they have suffered some harassment since Brexit”, she said.
As they chatted in Polish, witnesses said, a group of young boys and girls attacked them.
Polish ambassador Arkady Rzegocki visited the town earlier on Wednesday to lay floral tributes and to visit the family.
She added that the death of Mr Jozwik had hit some sections of the Polish community hard.
A second man was also attacked and has since been discharged from hospital.
Six teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of killing Mr Jozwik.
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Conservative Party MP Robert Halfon delivered the strongly-worded condemnation during a visit to his electoral district of Harlow, southeastern England, with Poland’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
