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    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    April 28 2004

    European economic summit opening in Warsaw


    WARSAW, April 28 (Itar-Tass) - A European economic summit, organized
    by the World Economic Forum, opens here later Wednesday.

    The conference entitled Europe's Enlargement and Future Prospects
    will take three days and is organized under the patronage of Polish
    President Alexander Kwasniewski.

    It is expected to bring together 700 people representing the economic
    and political elite of 45 nations, including the presidents, prime
    ministers and ministers from 31 countries.

    Expansion of the European Union coming May 1 and its impact on the
    future economic and political activity of the EU, as well as the
    pressing issues of competition, demography, public health, and
    pensions make up the core of the agenda.

    Russia has delegated to the conference President Vladimir Putin's
    special spokesman on the EU expansion, Sergei Yastrzhembski, and a
    group of businessmen.

    Some other high-rank participants are Azerbaijani President Ilham
    Aliyev, Malta's Prime Minister Tonio Berg, Lithuanian Prime Minister
    Algirdas Brazauskas, Romanian President Ion Iliescu, Armenian
    President Robert Kocharian, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma,
    President Svetozar Marovic of Serbia and Montenegro, German President
    Johannes Rau, Georgian President Mikhai Saakashvil, Slovak President
    Rudolf Schuster, and Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin.

    Alexander Kwasniewski, Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, Foreign
    Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, and Labor Minister Erzy Hausner
    will play host to the participants.
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