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Wszyscy powinnismy solidarnie pokazac Republikanom w najblizszych wyborach!
Bush keeps Poland off visa-waiver list
Nicholas Kralev
Friday, October 17, 2008
President Bush speaks about the the Visa Waiver Program in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. Bush announced that visa requirements to visit the U.S. have been removed for citizens of Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and South Korea. Pictured from left to right: Homeland Security Secretary Michćl Chertoff; Hungary Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi; Latvia Ambassador Andreijs Pildegovics; Czech Republic Ambassador Petr Kolar; South Korea Ambassador Tć-Sik Lee; Lithuania Ambassador Audrius Bruzga; Estonia Ambassador Vaino Reinart; Slovakia Embassy's Charge d'Affaires Andrej Droba; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Bush angered staunch ally Poland Friday by excluding it from a group of newcomers to a program that allows citizens of certain countries to visit the United States without entry visas.
At a Rose Garden ceremony, Mr. Bush announced rescinding visa requirements for six other former communist countries -- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia -- as well as South Korea, effective in about a month.
"For years, the leaders of these nations have explained to me how frustrating it is for their citizens to wait in lines, pay visa fees to take a vacation or make a business trip or visit their families here in the United States," Mr. Bush said.
"These close friends of America told me that it was unfair that their people had to jump through bureaucratic hoops that other allies can walk around," he added. "I told them I agree with them."
But Poland, the Bush administration's strongest ally in Central and Eastern Europe, which was the most vocal supporter of the Iraq war and sent troops early on, was absent from the ceremony.
"There is a sense of disappointment on our part," said Pawel Kotowski, counselor at the Polish Embassy in Washington. "We hope the next administration will take up this issue as a top priority. We have signals from both [the Obama and McCain] campaigns that they will look at Poland's membership in the program favorably."
Twenty-seven countries, mostly in Western Europe, are part of the so-called visa-waiver program, excluding the newcomers. Congress now requires that less than 10 percent of the visa applications by a country be rejected before it qualifies for membership.
Mr. Kotowski said the refusal rate for Polish applicants was 25 percent last year but is now down to less than 14 percent.
The new members must issue biometric passports, which are tamper-proof and difficult to forge, to their citizens. They also must agree to cooperate with U.S. authorities on security threats and other safety issues.
Some lawmakers are worried that expanding the visa-waiver program could make it easier for terrorists and other criminals to enter the United States legally. The administration says it will soon require travelers from those countries without a visa to register online as part of a new program before their visits.
Mr. Bush expressed support for the bids of Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Poland and Romania to join the visa-waiver list. All those countries, as well as Friday's additions, are members of the European Union, except for South Korea.
The EU welcomed the president's announcement, which it said will "further strengthen" trans-Atlantic ties.
"It is a significant further step on the path to full visa-free reciprocity between the EU and the USA," said European Commission Vice-President Jacques Barrot. "We will continue to work with the U.S. authorities to secure the same treatment for all European citizens." | | 10/17/2008 16:44 | | | Gość | RE: Visa-waiver dla prawie wszystkich tylko nie dla.....Polakow! | | | Bush to pedal krzywo w dupe ruchany.... | | 10/17/2008 17:21 | | | Gość | RE: Visa-waiver dla prawie wszystkich tylko nie dla.....Polakow! | | | Webmaster, wymazc cymbala za brak kultury i wulgarne slownictwo... | | 10/17/2008 17:40 | | | Gość | RE: Visa-waiver dla prawie wszystkich tylko nie dla.....Polakow! | | | Wizy dla Polakow????? NIGDY - no chyba ,ze zaczniemy wymagac przy wjezdzie do POlski.
Jak tu wytlumaczyc, ze do USA Polacy to tylko jada naprawde w celach turystycznych lub na zakupy - oraz okazyjnie odwiedzic rodzine.
Proponuje, no wlasnie co?
Proponuje, wzorowac sie na Ameryce, czyli zwiekszyc ilosc zolniezy w Iraku a wraz z nimi wyslac tankowce na rope lub sklucic zroznicowana ludnosc pod jakim kolwiek wzgledem i wyslac im pomoc, wpostaci broni-oczywiscie nie za darmo. | | 10/17/2008 20:05 | |
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