Polish Talks Set for Mid-October
Poland’s Communist authorities and the outlawed Solidarity union will open full-scale talks on the country’s future in mid-October, Polish Television said Friday.
Government officials and Solidarity leaders, including Lech Walesa, agreed to the meeting during talks Friday in Warsaw, it said.
“I am happy. We have brought our positions closer,” Walesa told reporters after concluding the talks with Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, internal affairs minister, and other officials.
“Many things were discussed, but I have to repeat again--there is no freedom without Solidarity,” Walesa said.
The negotiations between the government and Solidarity will involve other representatives of Polish public life, including the powerful Roman Catholic Church.
The decision to hold the talks marks a transformation in the government’s attitude toward Solidarity, which it suppressed under martial law in December, 1981, and outlawed a year later.
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