Bartoszewski meets Barak, participates in debate, signs cultural accords
Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, currently visiting Israel to
commemorate the 10th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic relations
between the two countries, met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
yesterday. Earlier Bartoszewski took part in a parliamentary debate, in
which deputies said Poland was partly responsible for the Holocaust,
claiming that many Poles had participated in the mass murder of the Jewish
people during World War II. At the same time they suggested that the new
Poland should come to terms with its past. In Jerusalem Bartoszewski and
his Israeli counterpart Shlomo Ben Ami signed a preliminary agreement on
Polish-Israeli cooperation in the fields of culture, science and education
for 2002-03. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A6)
