Poland backs Azerbaijan’s drive to join West: president
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Poland backs Azerbaijan’s drive to join West: president
Forbes – Feb 26, 2008
Kaczynski who was hosting his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev said Warsaw was a solid supporter of Baku’s ‘integration with Euro-Atlantic structures including the EU’. The 27-member European Union — which ex-communist Poland itself joined in 2004 — earlier this month marked its move to strengthen ties with Azerbaijan by opening its first diplomatic mission in the Caspian Sea nation. The political moves come against a background of efforts to secure more oil and gas supplies for Europe. Kaczynski and Aliyev signed a joint agreement regulating bilateral ties following talks focused largely on possible future Polish imports of Azeri crude oil and natural gas.
Poland to offer 2-2.5 bln zlotys of 5-yr 1-2 bln of 30-yr bonds in…
Forbes – Feb 26, 2008
5 bln of 5-year bonds at tenders in March with its borrowing needs this month eased by the strong performance of the budget the ministry’s debt department head said. ‘The supply of government bonds in March may be less than in February’ Piotr Marczak told Thomson Financial News. ‘This is due not only to the good position of the budget but also to the varying structure of supply. ‘ Demand is usually lower for bonds maturing outside of the 10-year range applied to most of Poland’s debt issues.
Poland recognizes Kosovo – government
RIA Novosti – Feb 26, 2008
The country's parliamentary speaker Bronislaw Komorowski had earlier said that "I believe that Poland will be among those states to recognize the independence of Kosovo guided in principle by the fact that no one has found an effective way to bring together two mortal ethnic enemies. " Kosovo's parliament unilaterally declared independence on February 17. Belgrade called the move illegal. However the United States and over a dozen Western countries have so far recognized Kosovo's independence.
Poland’s Lech Walesa may need heart transplant
Reuters AlertNet – Feb 26, 2008
She said it was unclear when Walesa who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his leadership of the Solidarity trade union that shook Poland’s communist control would be able to leave the hospital. "We’re going to evaluate how the pacemaker works as well as other test results before we know when he’ll go home as well as when he’ll come back for followup" she said. Walesa led workers’ rights movements in Poland in the 1970s. Solidarity won Communist government recognition after a 1980 Gdansk shipyard strike but was crushed when martial law was imposed in December 1981 and Walesa was detained. Though freed in 1982 he spent the next six years in detention or under surveillance by Polish authorities. Solidarity reemerged and led the push for democratic elections in 1988 winning power in 1989 when the decades-long communist government collapsed. Walesa was elected post-communist Poland’s first president in 1989 and served until voters turned against him in 1995.
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