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Sikorski: Poland builds ties with potential US Democratic candidates
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said that after the US midterm elections, he was establishing contacts primarily with potential Democratic presidential candidates. He also urged Poland’s president to use his relationship with Trump to pressure the aggressor, not Ukraine.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said Warsaw was preparing for a new political reality in Washington after the Democrats’ victory in the US midterm elections. “I am establishing contacts primarily with various potential Democratic presidential candidates,” he said in an interview with Polish television.
Sikorski also noted that the House of Representatives would have a new chair of its Foreign Affairs Committee. “I would not call him a friend, but we certainly know each other very well,” Poland’s foreign minister added.
In this excerpt, Sikorski discusses contacts with representatives of the US Democratic Party and the future leadership of the relevant congressional committee.
“Pressure the aggressor, not the victim”
The minister also addressed Polish President Karol Nawrocki’s position on Ukraine. “I know that the president is, to put it mildly, skeptical of Ukraine. But it is in Poland’s vital interests for an independent Ukraine to survive,” Sikorski said. He said the president’s role was to use his relationship with Donald Trump and persuade him to pressure the aggressor, not the victim of aggression.
Sikorski stressed that Poland wanted to remain a good ally of the United States regardless of who was in power in Warsaw or Washington. “We never neglected our contacts because we were not ideologically driven fanatics like our right-wing politicians and the presidential palace. They thought populists would rule the United States forever,” the minister said.
Relations between Donald Tusk’s government, in which Sikorski heads the Foreign Ministry, and President Nawrocki remain tense, including over foreign policy issues and the appointment of ambassadors.
Video: Polish television via Clash Report. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (archive)
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