Polish President Andrzej Duda has reported a “very good” telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump.
“Our main topics were the security of Poland and our region in the context of the recent B9 summit in Vilnius and the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague, as well as increasing defence spending among the Alliance member states,” he wrote on social media x.
Duda also said he assured Trump that Karol Nawrocki’s victory in Poland’s presidential election guarantees continuity in key aspects of Warsaw’s policy.
“Especially in maintaining strong transatlantic relations and close co-operation between Poland and the United States, both at the institutional level and personally with President Trump,” he added.
Washington has not yet released details of the conversation.
A summit of the Bucharest Nine and Nordic countries was held in Vilnius on 2 June. The summit statement noted, among other things, that NATO’s greatest responsibility is to ensure collective defence in accordance with Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, and the Hague summit should take further decisions on “building a stronger alliance, better prepared to defend every inch of the Allies’ territory”.
Karol Nawrocki, 42, a Polish conservative politician and head of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, who is backed by the opposition right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, won the second round of the presidential election held on 1 June.
According to the country’s electoral commission’s official tally of 100 per cent of the votes, Navrotsky won 50.89 per cent.