Trip to Kazakhstan fails to cement gas pipeline project

Presidents from six countries will take part including: Ukraine, Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. However, it is not yet known whether the president of Kazakhstan will participate. He accepted the invitation, but this is not tantamount to Kazakhstan joining other countries in the construction of the Odessa-Brody-Gdansk gas pipeline. Poland's hopes for unanimous support for the project were shattered after a meeting between Russia's and Kazakhstan's prime ministers who discussed several economic agreements in preparation of president Wladimir Putin's visit to Kazakhstan in May. Some say that President Lech Kaczynski's visit achieved nothing as only the president of Azerbeijan supported the new pipeline unconditionally. (Rzeczpospolita p. B2) M.M.