Russian foreign minister set to visit Poland

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Poland next week to meet with his counterpart and Prime Minister Donald Tusk to discuss the stationing of US missile defense elements on Polish soil, a deal Moscow strongly opposes.

"This visit is planned," Russian foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told reporters at a news briefing. "I am convinced the topic of Poland signing [an agreement on] the U.S. missile shield deployment will be raised," he said. Another item on the agenda will be the conflict in Georgia as well as relations with the European Union. Poland has been one of Moscow's strongest critics over the last month's armed conflict in Georgia, insisting on EU sanctions against Russia.

Nesterenko said that the Russian Foreign Minister will visit Poland on September 11.

Source: Reuters