Radosław Sikorski made the statement on Saturday during his visit to Washington where he met
General Keith Kellogg, now seen as a foreign policy adviser to former U.S. president
Donald Trump, a strong rival of
Joe Biden in November presidential elections.
“We want the best possible relations with America, regardless of who is in power here, and we will not make the mistakes of our predecessors by betting on one card,” Sikorski told a briefing for Polish media at the Kennedy Centre commenting on his meeting with Kellogg.
He said that he was “impressed” with his talks with Kellogg, former Vice President
Mike Pence's national security adviser, and currently working for the America First Policy Institute think tank.
Sikorski said that Kellogg “understands the situation of our region...the stakes of this war (in Ukraine) and understands that Poland is doing more than other allies.”
“Poland has a friend in Kellogg,” he said.
Asked by the Polish Press Agency (PAP) about reports that Trump took up
Polish President Andrzej Duda's initiative to raise the mandatory threshold of NATO countries' defense spending to 3 percent of GDP, Sikorski said that he understood this initiative as “showing that Poland is a top student here.”
“Yes, we will use our example to mobilize others to at least fulfill the obligations in the Alliance that have been in force for many years,” he declared.
While in Washington, Sikorski also held talks with the Director for Europe at the U.S. National Security Council Mike Carpenter, which he said were “very intense and detailed” and focused on the war in Ukraine.
