(31 Aug 2010)
1. Close up of sign reading (Polish) "Office Lech Walesa"
2. Wide of entrance to office of Solidarity founder and former Polish president Lech Walesa
3. Mid shot of wooden plate in office, showing the head of Lech Walesa
4. Walesa sitting at his desk
5. Close up of emblem of Poland on memo book
6. Close up of name of Lech Walesa on memo book
7. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Lech Walesa, Solidarity founder and former president of Poland:
"My character is such that I work for today and for tomorrow. I am not too much interested in the past and I am leaving it to historians and other professionals. So that's why I am not interested in it. I am more interested in what's next with Poland, what's next with Europe, what's next with globalisation."
8. Close of hand
9. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Lech Walesa, Solidarity founder and former president of Poland:
"Solidarity is nothing else than if you cannot shoulder a burden, ask a few others to help you lift it. Every country has its burdens, problems, difficulties. They are in every country in Europe, on the continent, and globally. So we should get organised in solidarity to lift those burdens."
10. Close of Solidarity pins on lapel of Walesa's suit
11. Walesa's hands on des
12. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Lech Walesa, Solidarity founder and former president of Poland:
"I would like to see a Poland that is comparable to those countries that lived in a different system and are better off economically, democratically and politically. I would like to speed up the process of catching up with the countries that are ahead of us."
13. Mid shot of bell on wall in office
14. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Lech Walesa, Solidarity founder and former president of Poland:
"After the huge division, we are entering a third chapter where we are today and once again we try to unite, but only to protect various interests - politicians for political interests, economists and capitalists to defend their interests, and among all that, unionists defend member interests."
15. Photograph on display showing Walesa with Pope John Paul II.
16. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Lech Walesa, Solidarity founder and former president of Poland: (on the cross conflict):
"Poland needs to improve its laws. And if the law said, as I have said, that it's forbidden to build on a plot of land that is not yours, then it would be clear that it has to be taken down and removed, because we have specialised forces to do that."
17. Walesa working at his desk
18. Poster announcing the 30th anniversary of Solidarity
19. Wide of Gdansk skyline with Motlawa river
20. Mid shot of boat with harbour cranes in the background
STORYLINE
Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said on Tuesday that 30 years after his trade union movement paved the way for massive democratic reforms that brought communism to its knees across Eastern Europe, Poland was dragging its feet on changes it needed to help it catch up with its western European neighbours.
The so-called Gdansk agreements eventually led to democratic changes in 1989 and spurred sweeping reforms across Eastern Europe.
Speaking at his office in the Baltic port city of Gdansk, Walesa however refused to delve into his memories of the 1980 strikes at the city's shipyard and elsewhere that gave rise to Solidarity and to Poland's democratic changes.
Instead Walesa said he wanted to look ahead at challenges that Poland, and the world, faced.
"I am more interested in what's next with Poland, what's next with Europe, what's next with globalisation," he told the Associated Press in an interview.
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