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[Just as the Polish Pilsudski-Beck military regime's non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany insured that Hitler wouldn't invade Poland in September of 1939. But what is national sovereignty, what cultural pride, what human integrity, when U.S. ambassador to Poland Christopher Hill, who has a personal rap sheet on him sufficient to get him to the top of the docket at any future Nuremberg Tribunal, pats the ever obedient Kwasniewski on the head and praises him for there being 'no better example.' Example of what is obvious. Here in the States his name was Benedict Arnold.] Polish President Says NATO Enlargement Ensures Safer Europe Mar 12, 2002 -- (BBC Monitoring) Excerpt from report by Polish international satellite TV service on 11 March. [Presenter] According to President Aleksander Kwasniewski, the more states join NATO, the safer Europe will become. A day before the third anniversary of Poland's entry to the alliance, the president spoke in favor of further NATO enlargement of countries from Central-East and South Europe... In the president's view, skeptics' doubts saying that enlargement would weaken the alliance have not proved true. Now, the alliance wants to open itself to other countries. [Kwasniewski] Poland expects that decisions concerning this issue, inviting all candidates which fulfil the membership criteria to NATO, will be made univocally at the NATO states summit in Prague this year. We are keeping our fingers crossed for our neighbors and for each aspiring state from Central-East and South Europe. [Presenter] According to representatives from NATO states and candidates to NATO, which came to Warsaw to attend a conference organized by National Security Office and the Marshall Center, only this way can we ensure safety and combat terrorism. [Christopher Hill, U.S. ambassador to Poland, in English fading into Polish translation] Poland has done a good job and every country of this region which wants to join the alliance should closely cooperate with Poland since there is no better example. [Presenter] We have earned such praises by, among other things, making changes in our armed forces. During last three years, we modernized communication and command systems and we educated army officers so that they could cooperate with their experienced colleagues from NATO without any sense of inferiority. [Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski] At the same time we are aware of our weaknesses. The basic ones concern armament and the equipment of an individual serviceman as well as a need for modernization of our armed forces as a whole. [Presenter] This year we must buy armored personnel carriers, antitank missiles and multirole aircraft... Source: TV Polonia, Warsaw, in Polish 1830 GMT 11 Mar 02 (C) 2002 BBC Monitoring __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
