WARSAW: Poland wants “the best possible relations with America, regardless of who is in power,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a visit to Washington, according to a report by Poland’s PAP newswire on Sunday.”We will not make the mistakes of our predecessors by putting all our chips on one color,” state-run PAP cited Sikorski as saying, in an apparent betting reference.
Poland’s former nationalist government had enjoyed a good relationship with former US president Donald Trump, even as Warsaw’s handling of policies raised concerns over its faithfulness to democratic values and strained the tolerance of EU allies.
After Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, Warsaw did not officially recognise him as US president for several weeks.
Sikorski was in Washington to discuss bilateral ties, security issues and the war in Ukraine with US officials.
Poland said it was also “among the targets” of the Russian-controlled hacking group that attacked Germany and the Czech Republic.
“Poland stands in solidarity with Germany and with Czechia following the malicious cyber campaign against their political parties and democratic institutions,” the Polish foreign ministry said in a statement Friday.