President appeals for building of special business relations with Ukraine

President Aleksander Kwasniewski has appealed to Polish businessmen to try to build special relations with Ukraine. Speaking at a ceremony in the Ukrainian town of Dniepropietrovsk at which he and his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kutchma opened the Ukrainian-Polish Center for the Promotion and Development of Management, Entrepreneurship and Investment, President Kwasniewski stressed that the building of a new Europe would be impossible without Ukraine. He referred to the fact that in the year 2000, the value of Polish investment in Ukraine increased by 14%. The Ukrainian president stressed that his country has no intention of changing its strategic target, which is integration with Europe. He added that Ukraine might take advantage of Poland's experience in this area. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 10) A.D.