In the U.S. Department of State, the deputy chief of Polish diplomacy met with acting Assistant Secretary of the Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker. They discussed security policy, including U.S. military presence in Poland in the context of threats coming from Russia, U.S.-Polish energy cooperation, the situation in the Middle East and the outcomes of the Middle East Ministerial Conference in Warsaw. They also discussed the development of the Three Seas Initiative.

Deputy Minister Lang also held talks with Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State and U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook and Special Representative for North Korean Policy Mark Lambert. Their discussion focused on the Warsaw Process as an outcome of the arrangements made during the Middle East Ministerial Conference in Warsaw and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

During his Washington visit, Deputy Minister Lang also met with representatives of the American Jewish Committee and attended the screening of Paraguay’s Passports, a film by Robert Kaczmarek. It is a documentary showing the history of Polish diplomats from the so-called Bernese Group who saved Jews during World War Two. Posted to the Polish diplomatic mission in Bern, diplomats Aleksander Ładoś, Konstanty Rokicki, Stefan Jan Ryniewicz and Juliusz Kühl, in cooperation with Jewish organisations, acquired and forged passports issued by South American countries which gave several thousand Jews the possibility to survive. The film screening, hosted by the Polish Ambassador in Washington D.C. Piotr Wilczek, was also attended by the Polish Ambassador in Bern Jakub Kumoch, Deputy Director of the Institute of National Remembrance Mateusz Szpytma and Marion Lewin, one of the survivors saved by the Bernese Group. Among the many guests who attended the event were representatives of U.S. Administration, Jewish organisations, the Polish-American community and the media.

 

MFA Press Office