Chancellor Schroder underlines policy to Iraq during visit to Warsaw

German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroder yesterday arrived in Warsaw on an official visit and met Prime Minister Leszek Miller in Lazienki Park before meeting with President Kwasniewski. The main subjects discussed by the politicians involved Poland's accession to the European Union and related financial issues. It was revealed that Schroder wanted to discuss the international political situation and repeated his policy that, "Germany will not take part in any military actions against Iraq". This is one of the first foreign visits conducted by Gerhard Schroder after he was re-elected as the Chancellor of Germany two weeks ago. "We are going to try to persuade the Chancellor, that the whole EU enlargement process revolves around the idea of a united Europe. Financial issues are important, but not the most important," said Tadeusz Iwinski, Secretary of State at the Foreign Ministry. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A9; Zycie, p. 3) A.K.