President Kwasniewski at World Summit joins calls for promises to be kept

The European Union is planning to fundamentally reform its system of agriculture subsidies for its member states. However, yesterday during the World Summit in Johannesburg the president of European Commission Romano Prodi said, "We acknowledge the importance of agriculture for developing countries and we know that in order to support them it is not enough to simply lower custom duties". President Aleksander Kwasniewski arrived at the summit yesterday and commented, "This is good news not only for developing countries, but for EU candidates as well. This will equalize the chances for farmers from candidate countries". President Kwasniewski said that his presence at the summit makes up for his absence during the Rio summit 10 years ago. In the afternoon, he took part in a round table talk on how to implement the declarations from the World Summit. Each of the 70 participants had five minutes to present their opinions. Kwasniewski summed his up his feelings by saying that the most important thing is keeping promises, as those made in Rio de Janeiro were often forgotten. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1, A5) M.M.