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PM Kaczynski denied meeting with President Bush From Poland A.M. PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski will make his first visit to Washington On September 13 where he will meet with vice president Dick Cheney, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the chairman of House of Representatives and the head of the Energetics Department. He will not, however, be meeting with President Bush. Polish diplomats have attempted to set up a meeting with the US President. US officials have explained that he simply has no time due to the upcoming 9/11 anniversary, November election campaign and ONZ's general assembly. Former Polish PM Leszek Miller...

Gay Activists Protest Polish President During Chicago Visit Bob Roberts Reporting CHICAGO (WBBM Newsradio 780) -- Poland's President has completed an overnight stay in Chicago. WBBM Newsradio 780's Bob Roberts reports that, before leaving the Windy City, President Lech Kaczynski laid a wreath at a memorial to Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a native of Poland whose engineering feats were instrumental as American colonists won their freedom from Britain. Members of Chicago's Polish-American community lined Solidarity Drive in the Museum campus, to witness the ceremony. Kaczynski, Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Mayor Daley took turns placing wreaths at the statue and...

Today the President met Poland's President Lech Kaczynski in the Oval Office. He also made remarks on the global war on terror at the National Guard Memorial Building in Washington Yesterday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at the State Department and she also held a news briefing to announce the release of the second annual report to Congress on the President's emergency plan for AIDS relief. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld is in Italy for a two-day NATO meeting. First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter Barbara continued their visit to Italy today...

American senators for Poles' easier travel to US 10.02.2006 American senators have declared support for a program liberalizing visa regulations for Polish students and scholars. However, the senators did not pledge to present a concrete draft bill to this effect in US Congress yet. President Lech Kaczynski met with representatives of the Democrats and Republicans for what analysts describe as an honest and concrete exchange of arguments on the liberalization and even scrapping of the US visa regime with respect to Poles.

Polish leaders at vanguard of Europe's `culture war' By Tom Hundley Tribune foreign correspondent Published February 10, 2006 WARSAW -- When he was mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczynski established his credentials as a Roman Catholic social conservative by banning the city's minuscule gay rights parade. So it came as no great surprise that as Poland's newly elected president, Kaczynski would make his first foreign visit to the Vatican. Perhaps more interesting is that his second trip abroad is to the United States. Kaczynski met with President Bush in the Oval Office on Thursday, and the two discussed NATO, the European...

Polish president presses for Ukraine in NATO The Associated Press THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006 WASHINGTON: President Lech Kaczynski of Poland, who hopes to bring Ukraine into the NATO alliance within the next two years, discussed his plan Thursday with President George W. Bush in their first meeting since Kaczynski took office in December. The two leaders said they discussed trade and other international issues during a meeting that started in the Oval Office and led to lunch in the executive residence. Poland is one of the strongest U.S. allies in Europe, and Bush said he thanked Kaczynski for his country's...

America Supports Poland's Challenge to Russia Simon Araloff, AIA European section, Warsaw Visit of the Polish President Kaczynski to the USA, which began yesterday, can already be marked as a successful one. In exchange for loud assurances of the Poles fidelity to the union with the United States, the White House declared its readiness to support the main project of the Warsaw diplomacy - creation of the NATO-like "European Energy Union". Lech Kaczynski’s Huge Success If someone in Europe had any doubts concerning foreign policy of the new Right-wing conservative leadership of the Polish republic, yesterday these doubts finally dissipated....

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2006 – The United States and Poland are friends in liberty, President Bush said while hosting Polish President Lech Kaczynski at the White House today. "I thank the president and the Polish people for their support of the democracy movement in Iraq," Bush said. "We're strong allies and friends. We're friends in liberty, and we believe in peace." Poland has troops serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In September 2003, the Poles assumed command of the Multinational Division Central South in Iraq, and along with their multinational partners have helped train Iraqi forces and stabilize the south...

Geopolitical Diary: Poland's Kaczynski Visits Washington February 09, 2006 08 00 GMT Polish President Lech Kaczynski traveled to Washington on Wednesday, where he met briefly with President George W. Bush late in the day and was expected to meet separately with other key advisers. Kaczynski's first official visit to the White House was brief and drew little media attention, but from Warsaw's perspective it comes at a key moment for the region. Poland's historical alliance with the United States remains strong, but the changing dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe have generated worries in Warsaw and prompted the recently elected...

President Bush said he sought advice from Polish President Lech Kaczynski Thursday about Ukraine, which Kaczynski is hoping to help bring into the NATO alliance in the next two years. In their first meeting since Kaczynski took office in December, the two leaders discussed trade and other international issues during a meeting that started in the Oval Office and led to lunch in the executive residence. Poland is one of the strongest U.S. allies in Europe, and Bush said he thanked Kaczynski for their support of the war in Iraq. They also discussed Kaczynski's desire for NATO to expand to...

Kaczynski on US visit Poland’s conservative president Lech Kaczyñski is paying a working visit to the United States, his first since taking office in late December. Its program features face to face talks with president George Bush as well as a meeting with US secretary of state Condoleeza Rice. This visit as an important element of continuation in Polish-American relations. Krzysztof Michalak, a Warsaw University specialist in Polish-American relations explains. “This is already a tradition that at the beginning of the year, president Bush invites his Polish partner for a working visit to discuss issues of interest to both sides”....

Poland to become the stronghold of US-led policies in Europe 09.02.2006 Source: Has the USA simply found a supporter in Europe or has Poland lost its notorious pride? This week Polish President Lech Kaczynski makes his first official visit to the United States as a head of state. He gave an interview to journalists last Friday and from this it is possible to deduce that Poland aspires to the role of being America’s main ally in Europe. Furthermore, Lech Kaczynski has given his transatlantic ally a "present" by promising that he wouldl leave a contingent of Polish troops in Iraq...

President: Poland is U.S. close and loyal ally 09.02.2006 Warsaw (PAP) - We are a close ally of the United States. We are ready to be a loyal ally in exchange for mutual loyalty, President Lech Kaczynski told a Radio One correspondent on Thursday, the first day of his visit to the U.S. As the loyal ally Poland has the right to expect respect for Polish interests as this is the basis of partnership, Lech Kaczynski explained. "We are a state of the central Europe, member of the European Union and NATO. The U.S. is interested in the situation within...

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...

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's new president - a conservative former Solidarity activist jailed by communists in the 1980s - heads to Washington on Wednesday for talks with President George W. Bush on NATO's future and US-Polish trade. Kaczynski, whose opposition to abortion and gay marriage gives him some common ideological ground with Bush, took over in December from former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski, who had served the maximum two five-year terms. He meets Thursday with Bush for formal talks and a working lunch, and is also to see Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials. Kaczynski told The Associated Press...

WARSAW -- Poland's new president, Lech Kaczynski, said his country might keep troops in Iraq until sometime in 2007 if necessary, in an extension of its military commitment there, even as other nations are withdrawing or making plans to do so. In an interview in advance of a visit this week to Washington, where he is to meet President Bush and other U.S. officials, Kaczynski said Poland had no second thoughts about joining the multinational invasion and occupation of Iraq. He defended the removal of Saddam Hussein as "the right thing to do," despite the failure to find weapons of...

Bush to meet Polish President WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush is due to meet his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski at the White House on Feb. 9, the White House said in a statement Tuesday. "The two presidents will discuss reform and democracy in Eastern Europe, energy security, NATO and assistance to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in a statement. "Poland is among America's closest friends and allies, and a leading strategic partner in the cause of freedom," McClellan added. It will be Kaczynski's first visit to the White...