French Prime Minister Jospin meets with Geremek on first visit to Poland

The ministers met with Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek. French Environment Minister Dominique Voynet will sign an agreement concerning mutual cooperation on improving the environmental protection standards in Poland. The main subject of discussions, however, will be Polish integration with European Union (EU), mutual economic collaboration and regional security issues. Today, Prime Minister Jospin will meet President Aleksander Kwasniewski, the speakers of the Sejm and the Senate. In the afternoon he will visit Krakow, Katowice and Auschwitz. (Rzeczpospolita, page A5)