Justice Minister will not resign and may reveal contents of letter to Buzek

Justice Minister Lech Kaczynski has declared that he will not resign over the accusation that the General Prosecutor's Office mishandled the arrest of the deputy director of the Katowice branch of the State Security Office (UOP). Kaczynski has said that he will decide today, after talks with Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek, whether to make public the details of a letter he sent to the prime minister yesterday. The Rzeczpospolita daily reports that the letter contains further information about a statement in which the prosecutor's office explains that the proceedings against the UOP official, Mariusz Sz, were entirely legal. According to members of Law and Justice (PiS), the party led by Kaczynski, the problems between the UOP and the prosecutor's office stem from a clash of concepts, and specifically concern a conflict between the principles that all are equal before the law, and that the special forces should be empowered with special rights. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) K.K.