Thursday, June 16, 2005

Prime Minister: Decision on Szlajfer to come 'soon'

An official decision on what to do about ambassador-designate Henryk Szlajfer is coming "soon," after President Aleksandr Kwasniewski and Prime Minister Marek Belka review the controversy, the Associated Press reports from Warsaw.

According to AP, "allegations of communist-era collaboration have cast doubt over the pending appointment of Poland's new ambassador to the United States, the Foreign Ministry said" on July 14.

Prime Minister Belka told reporters that an official decision on Szlajfer will bome "soon."

Szlajfer asked Foreign Minister Adam Rotfeld to "review" his nomination, in the words of AP, "after public allegations that in the 1970s he was a secret informer for the communist security forces."