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Titolo: Poland?s Kaczynski Backs Ukraine?s NATO Bid, Seeks Better Ties With Moscow


Poland?s new president said his country hopes to see neighbor Ukraine join
NATO in 2008 and wants better relations with Russia while urging Moscow to
drop ideas of having a ?zone of influence? in the region, Lech Kaczynski
told The Associated Press.
President Lech Kaczynski, a social conservative, took over in December
from former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski, who had served the maximum
two terms. Kaczynski travels Wednesday to the U.S. for his first meeting
with President George W. Bush.
Poles have been eager to win more U.S. investment and easier access to
visas, but Kaczynski stressed that strategic issues like Iraq and hopes
for further NATO expansion would be a priority during his meeting with
Bush on Thursday. Many of his comments looked to Poland?s immediate
neighborhood in Eastern Europe.
?The main issue of the talks will be related to our political-military
alliance, NATO, the enlargement of NATO,? Kaczynski, 56, said in an
interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. ?Poland is very much
interested in the enlargement of NATO.?
He indicated that Poland would push for building stronger Western ties
with Ukraine ? a former part of the Soviet Union where Russian influence
is still strong. ?Poland is very deeply interested in Ukraine joining
NATO. We would very much like that to happen in 2008,? he said,
reiterating Polish support for Ukraine eventually joining the European
Union as well.
Poland, where memories of domination by Moscow during the Cold War are
still fresh, angered Moscow with its support for Ukraine?s so-called
?Orange Revolution,? in which pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko won
election over a candidate backed by Moscow.
He said Poland would continue efforts to diversify its sources of oil and
gas to reduce its dependence on Russia, and would focus on efforts to
obtain more natural gas from Norway and plans to build a terminal on the
Baltic Sea to take delivery of gas by ship from sources such as Algeria
and Qatar. ?We never know what fate may bring,? he said. ?We must have the
possibility of getting gas from many sources.?
Kaczynski won the election in October after his twin brother, Jaroslaw
Kaczynski, led their Law and Justice Party to victory in parliamentary
elections the month before. Both are former activists in the Solidarity
trade union movement that helped topple communist rule in 1989-90.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski decided not to seek the prime minister?s job because
the brothers believed many people wouldn?t want identical twins in the two
top political posts. Law and Justice?s Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz became
prime minister instead.
After talking tough about Moscow during the election campaign and
immediately afterward, Kaczynski?s remarks Tuesday were nuanced. He
declined to criticize Russia for briefly turning off natural gas to
Ukraine in a dispute that underlined fears that Moscow may use its energy
reserves as a lever to enhance its influence over other countries.
?As far as Russia is concerned, we are interested in good cooperation and
we are also interested in Russians forgetting that there is a sphere of
influence here,? he said. ?I am aware that this is particularly difficult
for the Russians. But for the sake of good European cooperation, they
should forget about it, and be aware that Poles are eager for cooperation
with Russia.?
He said Russia?s campaign against separatist rebels in the Muslim Chechen
region did not meet standards of democracy. But he added that not all
President Vladimir Putin?s efforts to centralize political control were
bad.
?Putin is consolidating the state in a very strong manner. Some of his
actions truly fit in the true standards of democracy,? Kaczynski said.
?But people who think that every centralization is anti-democratic and
every decentralization is pro-democratic, will always say ... that are
many anti-democratic processes there. I don?t share this opinion.?
?But if we are dealing with actions aimed at curbing the opposition, then
that does not fit the standards of democracy and certainly the issues of
Chechnya cannot be reconciled with the standards of democracy.?
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 Poland?s Kaczynski Backs Ukraine?s NATO Bid, Seeks Better Ties With Moscow
Fermatelo! Con i suoi punti interrogativi sta seminando il dubbio e l'orrore...
Altro che Nyarlathotep il Signore del Caos...
Am.
PS pensi di vincere le elezioni a colpi di Tass, o ti pagano un tanto a post?