Treasury changes PGNiG supervisory board ahead of official talks in Russia

The Treasury Ministry has appointed four new members to the supervisory board of Polish Oil and Gas (PGNiG). The four are Wojciech Gorecki from the Mining and Metallurgy Academy in Krakow, former deputy head of Piotrkowskie Voivodship Waldemar Matusewicz, Treasury Ministry official Andrzej Wielguszewski, and Andrzej Zajac, former adviser to the Economy Minister. They have replaced Elzbieta Urbanowska-Sojkin, Danuta Szkopowicz, Lidia Gawlik and Piotr Naimski. Gazeta Wyborcza speculates that the changes may be linked to the visit by a government delegation to Moscow, led by deputy Prime Minister Marek Pol, scheduled for December. One of its tasks will be to renegotiate the Polish-Russian inter-government agreement on cooperation in the gas sector, signed in 1995. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 25) M.K.