LOT inaugurates Warsaw-Bratislava connection with meeting of Presidents

President Aleksander Kwasniewski began his two-day visit to Slovakia y esterday, meeting with President Rudolf Schuster and Prime Minister Miklos Dzurindza. Their talks focused on mutual cooperation, the future of the Vyszehrad Group and the upcoming parliamentary elections in Slovakia. Kwasniewski expressed hope that in those elections the people of Slovakia would confirm their will to join the European Union (EU) and continue economic reforms initiated by Dzuirindza. Kwasniewski flew into Slovakia with Polish airlines LOT, initiating LOT's regular Warsaw-Bratislava c onnection. "Bratislava was the last capital of a neighboring country, with which LOT did not have a connection," said Andrzej Latak, LOT's director for Central and Eastern Europe. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A7) T.J.