President Duda meets US senators
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
20.03.2016 13:01
Polish President Andrzej Duda met with a delegation of five US senators on Saturday to discuss “geopolitical issues” faced by the two countries, the presidential office said.
President Andrzej Duda walking to the meeting in Kraków on Saturday. Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk
The two-hour informal meeting at a Kraków restaurant on Saturday was “a long, good conversation about international politics”, said top presidential aide Krzysztof Szczerski.
The US delegation was made up of five senators: Republicans Dan Coats and Richard Burr, independent Angus S. King jr, as well as Democrats Mark Warner and Barbara Mikulski. The latter is of Polish origin.
Media reports ahead of the meeting, which was called by the US senators, said that the politicians were likely to discuss the constitutional crisis which has engulfed Poland.
US Senator Richard Burr following the meeting with Polish President Duda. Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk
Dozens of activists from the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD) stood outside the Kraków restaurant which hosted the meeting and shouted “Constitution” when President Duda left the meeting. (rg/pk)