Duda, Trump discuss security, defence spending
Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that he discussed the country's security and defence spending, as well as transatlantic relations in a telephone conversation he held with his US counterpart Donald Trump.
"I just had a very good phone conversation with US President Donald Trump," Duda wrote on the X platform on Friday night. "Our main topics included the security of Poland and our region in the context of the recently concluded B9 Summit in Vilnius and the upcoming NATO Summit in The Hague, as well as increasing defence spending among member states."
Duda also wrote that he had assured Trump that the victory of conservative Karol Nawrocki in Poland's presidential runoff election guaranteed continuity in Poland's policy of "maintaining strong transatlantic relations and close cooperation between Poland and the United States, both institutionally and personally with President Trump".
On June 1, Nawrocki, who is backed by the socially-conservative opposition party Law and Justice (PiS), narrowly won the ballot against Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski from the main ruling centrist Civic Coalition. Nawrocki is set to take office on August 6. (PAP)
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