President Andrzej Duda attended NATO Summit 2021 in Brussels
15.06.2021
In Brussels, President Andrzej Duda took part in a one-day summit of NATO leaders. The main topic of the talks was the NATO 2030 initiative, intended to strengthen the unity of the Alliance and prepare it for the challenges of the future. On the sidelines of the Summit, the President met, inter alia, with the leaders of the USA and France.
- A greater presence of NATO in our part of Europe can be expected. This also applies to the increase in expenditure by member states on defense and the Alliance's new strategy, said Andrzej Duda after the Summit. - Much was said about those matters that concern us directly, i.e. security on the eastern flank, about the importance and seriousness of Art. 5 as the de facto leading article of the North Atlantic Treaty, i.e. collective defense.
The Summit was also an occasion for individual talks between heads of state. President Andrzej Duda talked today with US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaew.
- In the conversation, the President of the USA made it very clear that the security of Central and Eastern Europe, including the security of Poland, is very close to his heart, said Andrzej Duda during the evening meeting with journalists.
The conversation between Presidents Duda and Biden was held at the invitation of the American side and concerned Polish-American cooperation in the field of broadly understood military and economic security of our region.
In the backstage of the NATO summit, the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, also talked with the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, about the completion of the construction of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline; earlier, the President spoke with the Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, about this strategic investment.
The President of the Republic of Poland was accompanied in Brussels by the Minister of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak, ministers Paweł Soloch - Head of the National Security Bureau and Krzysztof Szczerski - Head of the International Policy Bureau and Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz. .
On the sidelines of the summit, Minister Przydacz met with Counselor at the State Department, Derek Chollet, with whom he discussed bilateral issues, threats from Russia, energy security, the Three Seas Initiative and other issues that are part of Polish-American cooperation.
Fot. W. Król/MON i NATO
Permanent Delegation of Poland to NATO
