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Report: Polish minister says US ties worthless

Poland’s Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet tells a news conference in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, June 19, 2014, that prosecutors and security officers broke no laws when they searched the office of popular magazine Wprost in an effort to seize as evidence materials that the magazine used when it recently published secret recordings of private conversations of top officials. The magazine’s chief editor, Sylwester Latkowski, put up resistance and demanded a court order. The authorities left without taking away any computers or recordings. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Poland’s Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet tells a news conference in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, June 19, 2014, that prosecutors and security officers broke no laws when they searched the office of popular magazine Wprost in an effort to seize as evidence materials that the magazine used when it recently published secret recordings of private conversations of top officials. The magazine’s chief editor, Sylwester Latkowski, put up resistance and demanded a court order. The authorities left without taking away any computers or recordings. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) Poland’s Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet tells a news conference in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, June 19, 2014, that prosecutors and security officers broke no laws when they searched the office of popular magazine Wprost in an effort to seize as evidence materials that the magazine used when it recently published secret recordings of private conversations of top officials. The magazine’s chief editor, Sylwester Latkowski, put up resistance and demanded a court order. The authorities left without taking away any computers or recordings. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

By Associated Press 1 min read

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A Polish magazine says it has obtained recordings of a conversation in which Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says the country’s strong alliance with the U.S. “isn’t worth anything” and is “even harmful because it creates a false sense of security.”

A short transcript of the conversation was released on Sunday by Wprost, a weekly magazine that set off a political storm last weekend with the publication of secret recordings of other top officials making compromising remarks.

In the transcript, a person that Wprost identifies as Sikorski tells former finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, that Poles naively believe the U.S. bolsters their security.

The Foreign Ministry says it won’t comment until the entire conversation has been released. Wprost says it will publish the sound files of the recording Monday.