Posted on 02/08/2006 4:22:33 PM PST by lizol
NATO tops agenda for Poland-U.S. summit
The Associated Press
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006
WARSAW Poland's new president - a conservative former Solidarity activist jailed by the Communists in the 1980s - was headed to Washington on Wednesday for talks with President George W. Bush on NATO's future and U.S.-Polish trade.
Lech Kaczynski, whose opposition to abortion and gay marriage gives him some common ideological ground with Bush, took over in December from Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former communist, who had served the maximum two five-year terms.
Bush and Kaczynski are to meet Thursday for formal talks and a working lunch, and the Polish leader is also to see Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials.
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