This is an announcement for the paper "On the fixed point property in direct sums of Banach spaces with strictly monotone norms" by Stanislaw Prus and Andrzej Wisnicki. Abstract: It is shown that if a Banach space X has the super fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings or admits a 1-unconditional basis and Y satisfies property asymptotic (P) (which is weaker than the condition WCS(Y)>1), then the direct sum of X and Y endowed with a strictly monotone norm enjoys the weak fixed point property. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H09; 46B20 Remarks: 12 pages The source file(s), direct_p.tex: 35126 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0706.0915.gz with size 10kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 86kb. Submitted from: awisnic@golem.umcs.lublin.pl The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0706.0915 or http://arXiv.org/abs/0706.0915 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0706.0915 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0706.0915 to: math@arXiv.org.