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Poland’s president: good talks on security with US senators

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2016 file photo Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks with Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., followed by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., as they walk to a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans during work on the energy reform bill on Capitol Hill in Washington. Coats is one of the five senators who will meet with the Polish president Duda on Saturday, March 19, 2016, after McCain was one of three senators who sent a letter to Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo in February expressing their concerns over the rule of law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file) FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2016 file photo Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks with Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., followed by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., as they walk to a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans during work on the energy reform bill on Capitol Hill in Washington. Coats is one of the five senators who will meet with the Polish president Duda on Saturday, March 19, 2016, after McCain was one of three senators who sent a letter to Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo in February expressing their concerns over the rule of law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

By Associated Press March 20, 2016 1 min read

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland’s president says he has held very good talks with U.S. senators about the security situation in Central and Eastern Europe, before a NATO summit that Poland will host in July.

Andrzej Duda said Sunday that the five members of the U.S. Senate’s Intelligence Committee were “not interested in” and didn’t discuss Poland’s current political crisis, which has drawn censure from European Union leaders and concern from three other U.S. senators.

Duda said the two-hour talks Saturday in the southern city of Krakow centered on threats to security in the region and on issues that Poland considers key for the NATO summit. Warsaw wants to obtain greater NATO security guarantees for the region nervous about Russia’s actions.