Warsaw – U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive in Poland late Wednesday for talks designed to reassure key European allies ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Germany on Friday and Saturday.
In Warsaw on Thursday, Trump is expected to meet Polish President, Andrzej Duda, as well as the leaders of 12 eastern European nations attending the Three Seas Conference.
At the conference, Trump will focus on infrastructure development and energy security, National Security Advisor HR McMaster said.
He is also set to meet Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, the co-host of the Three Seas Conference.
Trump will use the visit to Poland, a key NATO ally, to reaffirm his commitment to the alliance’s common defence obligation, a pledge that was conspicuously absent from remarks he delivered at a NATO meeting in Brussels in May.
The highlight of the brief visit to Warsaw will be a “speech to the Polish people’’ at Krasinski Square, site of the 1944 uprising against Nazi occupation.
“He will lay out a vision, not only for America’s future relationship with Europe, but the future of our transatlantic alliance and what that means for American security and American prosperity,” McMaster said.
The visit comes ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg, where Trump’s interactions with world leaders are expected to be more complicated as the president has shifted from previous
U.S. positions on issues such as trade and climate change. (dpa/NAN)