Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said the nation would make no haste in deciding whether to host the U.S. anti-missile shield.
"We definitely shouldn't hurry on the missile defense issue," Tusk was quoted as saying in an interview published Monday in the Polish edition of Newsweek.
The prime minister added that the shield is supposed to defend America not Poland.
Coming into office in November, Tusk has taken a cooler approach toward the U.S. missile system than his predecessor Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
The new prime minister has said that Poland would not agree to host the U.S. missile defense base unless Washington guarantees its national security.
The United States is planning to build an anti-missile system which would include 10 interceptors in northern Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic.
Russia, however, is fiercely against such an installation which it says threatens its security.
Russian deputy foreign minister Sergey Kisliak is to visit Warsaw Thursday for talks on the missile shield, according to the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Tusk also plans to discuss the issue with the Russian side during his visit to Moscow next month.
Source: Xinhua
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