Central Europe Online,
March 16, 2001.
WARSAW, Mar 15, 2001 -- (CTK - Czech News Agency) By no means has the "Czech
addition" to the draft UN resolution on Cuba caused any rift between the
Czech Republic and Poland, Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Grzegorz
Dziemidowicz, told CTK today, in reaction to speculations in the Polish press.
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Ananicz will not come to Ostrava this
week to open the Czech-Polish conference Jagello together with Czech Foreign
Minister Jan Kavan, due to Prague's stand on the planned UN resolution on Cuba,
the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has written. Ananicz has decided not to go to
Ostrava, north Moravia, in expression of Poland's "no" to the Czech
attempt to refuse the U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba within a resolution on
human rights violation by the Havana regime, the paper said.
The Jagello conference on Czech-Polish relations and their further prospects
two years after the two countries' entry into NATO was originally to be opened
by the two countries' foreign ministers on Thursday. Later it was agreed that
Ananicz would go to Ostrava on behalf of the Polish foreign minister, Wladyslaw
Bartoszewski, due to the latter's busy schedule.
"I don't comment on every piece of information by the press.
Information often varies," Dziemidowicz told CTK. He said Ananicz's Czech
trip had by no means been cancelled but only postponed. "Czech-Polish
meetings and consultations have been taking place regularly on various levels,
no change in this practice can be spoken about," Dziemidowicz said.
He declined allegations that the Czech proposal that the UN resolution
contain criticism of the U.S. economic sanctions on Havana had caused a rift
between Prague and Warsaw. Originally, like in previous years, the resolution
was to be prepared by the Czech Republic together with Poland. Later Poland
refrained from the preparations, reportedly due to its disagreement with the
Czech criticism of the U.S. embargo as inefficient. The Czech addition has also
raised displeasure of Washington.
((c) 2001 CTK - Czech News Agency)
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