sport/news digest

The WB and the IMF will announce at their annual meetings in Prague easier terms for writing off of debts for the poorest countries and establish a fund helping to implement anti-poverty programmes, The Washington Post wrote in its Sunday edition.
Defence Minister Vladimir Vetchy will leave for a two-day visit to Lithuania on Tuesday and meet Lithuanian President Valdus Adamkus, Premier Andrius Kubilius and his counterpart Ceslovas Stankevicius, the Ministry announced on Sunday.
Finance Minister Pavel Mertlik and the leader of the opposition Freedom Union Karel Kuehnl agreed on Sunday that the annual meetings of the IMF and the WB can improve the Czech Rebublic's position for foreign investors provided the government is able to cope with the organisation.
Daniel Kroupa, the leader of the Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA), does not insist on the demand that the four-member coalition "should not be represented by the people whose policies helped discredit authentic right-wing policies," Kroupa said on Saturday.
The Freedom Union's proposal that consumer tax on fuel and diesel should be lowered, is populist, Premier Milos Zeman told journalists tover the weekend.
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