Biden's visit shows support for Poland, Kaczyński says
US President Joe Biden's visit to Poland is a kind of support for the country, deputy prime minister and ruling party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, has said.
Biden landed in Rzeszów, south-eastern Poland on Friday afternoon to meet NGOs supporting Ukrainian refugees and visit US troops stationed in Poland before going to Warsaw for Saturday talks with the Polish President Andrzej Duda.
Talking to a public radio station about his expectations as to the US president's visit to Poland, Kaczyński said on Friday that "the very fact of the visit is important from our point of view".
"Due to the fact that today we are a country next to which a war is waged, (...) we can say we have become a front-line state. The visit of the leader of the greatest power is a kind of support for us and a demonstration of the coalition loyalty that is needed today for the whole of Nato, but for us in particular," he said.
Kaczyński added that he expects that what was said at the last Nato summit in Brussels, that is further sanctions, will be "more or less maintained."
"And above all, this unity message is very important at the moment, because undoubtedly one of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's goals, one of the assumptions of this whole action, the war waged against Ukraine, was that it would divide Nato," he said.
Asked if we could expect a historic speech by Biden in Warsaw, Kaczyński replied that at this moment the historic speech would have to herald some step that would lead to a happy peace.
"I would like it very much, but I must admit that if something like this were to be said, I am talking about some effective action that could bring a relatively quick end to this massacre, which is taking place in Ukraine, it would be very nice, but I would still be surprised, Kaczyński said.
