• Vietnamese communist police in Poland?
  • 08.10.2008

Polish President supports Angelika Borys, the government wants to show off at its first anniversary and Vietnamese communist functionaries are operating in Poland...

Joanna Najfeld reviews the press

Lech Kaczynski eye to eye with Angelika Borys - headlines DZIENNIK. Polish President is to talk to the head of the Union of Poles in Belarus on Wednesday at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. The President wants to assure Borys of his support to her as the head of the Polish minority in Belarus, Piotr Kownacki, head of the presidential chancellery told DZIENNIK. Recently the media revealed that the Polish Foreign Ministry might be involved in a controversial campaign to merge the independent Union of Poles in Belarus with the Lukashenko regime-controlled organization. Minsk demanded that as part of their negotiations with the European Union. Prime Minister Tusk already denied that Poland wants the independent organization headed by Angelika Borys to merge with the regime collaborators. Now the President wants to underline this even more by inviting Borys to Warsaw, writes DZIENNIK.

The POLSKA daily reveals a great plan for November 16th, the first famous anniversary of Donald Tusk's government, ironizes Rafał Ziemkiewicz in RZECZPOSPOLITA daily. Within a month, the government wants to vote over 180 bills. So far, they have been excusing their inactivity, claiming that too much regulations can be harmful for the state. Now, they want to demonstrate how hard they have been working by passing hundreds of bills within a month. 'I am very sorry about these coalition MPs. Voting at such speed is not good for their muscles, it can cause cramps' writes Ziemkiewicz in RZECZPOSPOLITA.

The Vietnamese communist police is operating in Poland again, writes GAZETA WYBORCZA. According to the paper, functionaries of the Vietnamese regime are hunting down opposition members in Poland. The Vietnamese communist authorities are using an agreement between Poland and Vietnam, according to which the countries hand over citizens to each other. Poland has resorted to this deal only several times, in cases of lost documents of Polish citizens in Vietnam. The other side is using the law to force Polish law enforcement services to help arrest Vietnamese opposition members in Poland. Poland hosts a center of opposition to the Vietnamese communist regime. Dissidents who are caught here are transported back to Vietnam where they go to prisons or camps. The Vietnamese communist police is also pressuring the families of opposition members to collaborate in exchange for the release of their relatives from captivity, reports GAZETA WYBORCZA.