WARSAW (POLAND) – Polish President Andrzej Duda is slated to discuss health, security and development with US President Donald Trump during a visit to Washington on Wednesday, his top aide told Polish public radio.
Duda will be the first foreign leader to visit the White House since the start of the pandemic. The visit comes just four days ahead of Poland’s presidential election on June 28, which was announced unexpectedly last week.
“I can say there will be good news from Washington,” Krzysztof Szczerski, the president’s chief of staff, said on Monday. “There will be three main topics: first of all, health, secondly, investments and development, and third, security.”
During the discussions, security would cover energy, the Three Seas Initiative and cybersecurity. Health issues would be a plan to jointly tackle the pandemic, he said.
Szczerski said Duda would also discuss the security concerns of nations in the region.
Last June, Trump consented to send 1,000 more troops to Poland. Last week, Reuters reported the project was tottering amid disputes over funding and a place to garrison the troops.
The report was denied by some Polish government officials and the US envoy to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher.
On Monday, Trump said the United States would reduce its troops in Germany by 9,500. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said he hopes some of them will be moved to Poland.
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