Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said here Tuesday that the government would soon discuss again the deployment of elements of the U.S. anti-missile shield in Poland.

"Surely in this case an action is required but it should not be a hasty but a resolute one," the prime minister told reporters after a meeting of the National Security Council (RBN).

Kaczynski declined to reveal the terms that Poland would deploy shield's elements. "We would like to make the most of it for Poland," the PAP news agency quoted Kaczynski as saying.

The prime minister said he saw no possibility for holding a national referendum on the shield, noting that this is a matter pertaining to the state security and should be decided by those who have been given a mandate to make it and bear the consequences.

Earlier in the day, Polish National Security Council (RBN), an advisory body for president, met to discuss the deployment of elements of a U.S. anti-missile shield in Poland.

The meeting was convened by Polish president Lech Kaczynski.

RBN chief Wladyslaw Stasiak said the president decided that another RBN meeting on the possible anti-missile shield deployment would be held soon.

Washington is pressing to place missile defense bases in Poland and the neighboring Czech Republic, a system it says would protect most of Europe from Iranian airstrikes in the future.

Source: Xinhua