Komorowski pays tribute to Kosciuszko in New York

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President Komorowski is in New York on a four-day trip, where he will give a speech to the annual UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama opened the assembly, Tuesday, where he said that “we will do what we must” to stop Iran building a nuclear arsenal.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the delegates, including 120 presidents and prime ministers, that the civil war in Syria as "a regional calamity with global ramifications" and that "the international community should not look the other way as violence spirals out of control".

Meanwhile, Poland's foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who is in the Polish delegation for the UN session in New York, is to hold a number of bilateral and multilateral consultations, including meetings with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

According to the Polish Foreign Ministry, one of Poland's goals at the UN Assembly is to promote the nation's candidature for membership in the Security Council for the years 2018 and 2019.

“Another key part of the visit by the chief of Poland's diplomacy will be his bilateral and multilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of UN member states,” says a statement by Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki.

“Mr Sikorski will also have meetings with the foreign ministers of Chile, Columbia, Angola and Senegal, as well as with former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and several American media,” he adds.

Though Bronislaw Komorowski said before the trip that he intends to raise the issue of Poland's inclusion in the US visa waiver scheme with President Obama, the White House has said that the American head of state will not be having one-on-one meetings with visiting politicians, as has been the case during previous sessions at the UN. (pg/mk)