President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski, during a visit to the U.S. was assured of Barack Obama"s "unbreakable" alliance with the Polish, the promise of the abolition of visas before the end of his current term, and also thanks for the support of Polish for START.
Obama first of all thanked Komorowski, Polish government, as well as countries in Central and Eastern Europe for its support of an atomic arsenałw START reductions. He believes it is important that the U.S. senators with paragraph Polish president, a neighbor of Russia, had heard about how important is the ratification of START. Ratification of the treaty by the U.S. Senate Republicans block. START provides for the reduction of arsenals of strategic nuclear warheads to a level of 1550 on the U.S. and Russia. His Republican critics contend, inter alia, that the treaty might hinder the freedom of the United States in developing missile defense systems to be, and that it causes niepokj countries and the donors of Central and Eastern Europe.
Zarwno Obama and Komorowski expressed satisfaction with the rezultatw recent NATO summit in Lisbon, ktre confirm the crucial importance of Article 5 sojusznikw safety, as well as recognize the territorial missile defense as one of the fundamental mission of the Alliance.
Declaring that the United States will stand for the Polish in terms of its security, U.S. President enumerated "Oglnonatowskiego approach adopted under the anti-missile defense as well as the creation of a branch also runs the air, ktry in the future will be stationed in Poland and the missile SM-3 interceptors, will ktre stationed in Poland."
The U.S. president also mwił of the Polish presence in Afghanistan. He recalled that from 2011 will be "transitional" period of the transfer of responsibility for the security of the Afghan people of the country. It has to last until the end of 2014.
One was raised tematw visas for Polish people.Obama acknowledged that the issue of visas is causing "some annoyance" among allies such as Poland and the United States. But - he added - change przepisw depends on Congress.
"Our government is working on this, we need to carry out modifications" - said Obama. He added that he declared in an interview with Komorowski, that the change of entry for the Polish people przepisw become a priority for his administration. "I want this issue resolved as soon as possible "- he assured. He hoped that this will happen before the end of his tenure.
President Komorowski considered incomprehensible that the Poles still need a visa to the U.S..
"I feel obliged to say that the Polish public opinion completely fails to understand why the whole Polish environment can benefit from visa free travel, and Poland is not" - said Komorowski.He added that Polish citizens, as EU member country without a visa can travel to many countries and the donors in Europe and work there and it would be appropriate if similar rules apply in the relations with the U.S.. He said that the declaration of the good faith of President Obama.
In a statement out after the meeting with Obama on the sides of the law firm Komorowski says that Obama has reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to the phased construction of missile defense in Europe, also held ktra includes deployment of ground-based interceptor missile SM-3 in Poland until 2018. He expressed gratitude for rwnocześnie Polish government"s willingness to deploy this system on Polish territory.
The presidents also called in a statement to conduct free and fair presidential elections in Belarus wyborw December 19. Obama has expressed support for the EU Eastern Partnership initiative.
As is clear from the statement, Komorowski invited Obama to visit Poland.
Before Wednesday"s meeting with Obama in the White House President Komorowski visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington. He visited them in the company of Polish Honorary Consul in Jerusalem, Zeev Baran, of family reunification ktrego Komorowski dramatic wartime experiences. During World War II, 16-year-old uncle of the current president, Bronislaw Komorowski, was arrested in Vilnius by Niemcw. Jewish family helped Baranw prbach buy him from prison. Unfortunately, they failed president and his uncle was shot.
The president looked at the exhibits in the museum, talked with survivors of the Holocaust, a candle lit and inscribed in the guestbook
Earlier, in the first day of his visit to U.S. President Bronislaw Komorowski, met in Washington with the president of the Polish American Congress Frank Spule and attended a dinner with representatives from business and academia.He said Frank Spula, meeting with President Komorowski was "very warm and cordial." President of the Polish community to encourage active participation in U.S. policy.
"He said that it would be good if young, educated people from the new Polish community were more involved in politics. He also is a long time say" - he said PAC president. He added that he invited the president to Chicago.
On Thursday, Komorowski, met for breakfast with Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and he laid a wreath at the military cemetery in Arlington. Then he flew to Cleveland, where he visited the clinic of Professor. Mary Semyonov, ktra last year was the first in the U.S. has 80 percent. face transplant.
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