Polish President Lech Kaczynski met on Thursday with visiting NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
Their talks focused on the approaching NATO summit in Bucharest and the granting of a Membership Action Plan to three Baltic countries, Ukraine and Georgia, Polish news agency PAP reported.
Kaczynski stressed that NATO's open-door policy was a guarantee of European stability and safety.
Scheffer thanked Kaczynski for his role in ensuring stability and democracy in east Europe and Poland's involvement in the operation of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Schaffer said the Bucharest meeting will be "a big event," and he also voiced pleasure at Russian President Vladimir Putin's attendance.
Schaffer noted, however, that the talks with Putin could be difficult "as there were "numerous contending issues between Russia and NATO." As examples he named Kosovo, NATO enlargement and the U.S. anti-missile shield.
Source:Xinhua
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