Future Prime Minister Miller to focus on kick-starting economic growth

The future coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Labor Union (UP) and Polish Peasants' Party (PSL) met yesterday to discuss the content of the Prime Minister's imminent Saturday opening address to Parliament. SLD leader and future Prime Minister, Leszek Miller, said he would discuss the basic economic tasks his government will carry out. Miller said the most urgent issue was how to kick-start economic growth. He also confirmed reports that he will support the dissolution of the State Security Office (UOP). SLD believes that Poland's economy cannot support both the UOP and Military Intelligence Service (WSI) and proposes creating a single agency to cover the responsibilities of UOP and WSI. President Aleksander Kwasniewski opposes this view, saying the organizations cannot be reformed at the moment, as our NATO allies need them. The new government is far from being swayed by the President. Miller said yesterday, "We are aware of the existing threats but the main aim of the special forces reform is to increase their effectiveness by subjecting them to democratic supervision." (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 3, Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) M.T.K.