Poland to emphasize threat from Russia during Trump visit: report
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
04.07.2017 12:35
Poland will likely emphasize the threat posed by Russia when US President Donald Trump arrives in Warsaw tomorrow, the Foreign Policy magazine has reported.
The Kremlin. Photo: EvgeniT/pixabay.com/CC0 Public Domain
“The threat that Russia poses cannot be overstated,” the US magazine cited Warsaw’s ambassador to Washington Piotr Wilczek as saying at a briefing ahead of Trump’s trip to Poland on Wednesday and Thursday.
Asked whether he wanted Trump to clearly commit to NATO’s Article 5, which states that an attack on one member of the alliance is viewed as an attack on all, Wilczek was quoted as saying: “We would like to hear that every day from the president of the United States.”
Foreign Policy also cited Wilczek as saying that Trump’s politics would not be used by Warsaw to deepen a divide between it and Brussels.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, confirmed last month it was launching legal cases against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic over their refusal to accept migrants from states under pressure in the EU’s migration crisis.
Meanwhile, in January last year the Commission announced it was starting a "rule-of-law" probe into whether laws pushed through by Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party violate EU standards. PiS has fiercely rejected such accusations.
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Source: Foreign Policy