Russian Foreign Minister to visit Poland, president may not be far behind

Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski says Russian president Vladimir Putin will entertain the idea of visiting Poland next year however his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov will visit in the second half of this November. Bartoszewski and Ivanov met in New York at the 55th session of the United Nation's General Assembly. Ivanov said that Russia is ready to discuss with Poland openly all issues. The last time a Russian President visited Poland was former Russian President, Boris Yeltsin in 1993. Yevgeny Primakov was the last Foreign Minister to visit Warsaw back in 1996. (Zycie, page 8)