Obama refuses to meet President Duda in Washington

President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, will not meet US President Barack Obama in Washington during the Nuclear Security Summit on March 31 and April 1, the presidential schedule of the visit announced by the Chancellery of the President showed. According to media reports, Polish officials strove to hold a meeting with Obama in Washington, three months ahead of the NATO summit in Warsaw, but the US president declined, allegedly because of the on-going constitutional crisis in Poland. President Duda's visit to the US commences on Tuesday. Polish daily Rzeczpospolita said the schedule doesn't include any meetings with important figures from the White House or Congress, apart from the Republican US representative, Chris Smith, a co-chairman of the Congressional Poland Caucus. Presidential Minister Krzysztof Szczerski said that the visit has two aims. The first one is the participation in the meeting of several dozen world leaders and the debate on nuclear security, the other concerns Polish matters. President Duda will present the Polish view on geopolitics at a meeting with experts and academics in the National Press Club.