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...other produce, which Poles say Russia imposed in retaliation for Polish support of the so-called Orange Revolution in neighboring Ukraine). The brothers have maintained Poland's historical support for the U.S., commanding a sector of Iraq and agreeing this month to send 1000 additional troops to shore up NATO in Afghanistan...
...Sunday evening, before departing Monday morning for the beginning of his four-day trip that will start with a stop in Estonia and then Latvia for a NATO summit, Bush received an update on his Administration's review of Iraq policy. The meeting at the White House included Vice President Cheney, who reported on his weekend trip to Saudi Arabia; National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser J.D. Crouch and N.S.C. officials who work on Iraq. The administration adviser said the meetings were scheduled partly to show that Bush is working the Iraq issue hard. "They...
...first country in history to boast identical twins in its two top political posts. Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski are Poland's President and Prime Minister, respectively. In order not to confuse world leaders, they have a policy of not traveling together to summits such as this week's NATO meeting in Riga. They also try to avoid appearing together at home. Even so, there have been mix-ups. The Financial Times told its readers that Prime Minister Kaczynski visited Britain when, in fact, it was the President. A reporter for BBC Newshour asked President Kaczynski about his earlier talks with...
Leaders of NATO's 26 member states gather this week in the Latvian capital, Riga, for a summit that will trumpet the solidarity of the world's most successful military alliance. The scripts have been largely written and surprises are unlikely. But as Christoph Bertram, the dean of German security experts, recently noted, the affair will be "like a Christmas service for agnostics, who for most of the year do not pray together or sing from the same hymnbook." The question of what the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should do and become has been a subject of often deep disagreement...
President Bush is set to visit Riga, Latvia, this week for a NATO summit, at which he will urge greater spending for Afghanistan as well as propose a military pact with Australia, Japan and South Korea...