Minister of Defence Bogdan Klich and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said, Thursday, that they did not know about former Polish Foreign Minister and current Secretary of State at the President's Chancellery Anna Fotyga's trip to Washington.
She is reportedly seeking to 'save' the negotiations on the deployment of the US anti-missile shield in Poland.
Bogdan Klich said that Fotyga's trip to the USA is 'her private initiative'. He told Polish Radio that the visit was not agreed on with the government and that he knows nothing about its character.
The same was said by Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, although he also expressed hope that the visit will help to present the Polish stance on the project. He said it would be useful if Fotyga managed to convince the USA to the Polish position.
The minister also said that he would wish for better cooperation between the government and the president in the area of foreign policy, especially in such a delicate moment of the negotiations on the shield.
PM Donald Tusk's government is less enthusiastic about the construction of elements of the US anti-missile defence system in Poland than the previous one, headed by Polish President's Lech Kaczynski's brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
The government has said that it would accept the US military expansion plan only if it were a "lucrative deal for Poland", for example if Washington equipped the Polish Armed Forces with the MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air defence missile system. (mo)