Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that pressure from Washington over the stationing of US anti-ballistic missiles on Polish soil was a pure negotiating tactic. "Unofficial and informal mutterings" were more "an element of the negotiations than a serious standpoint," Tusk was quoted by the Polish Press Agency as saying in Warsaw. Washington was pushing for an end to the political negotiations by mid-July, Gazeta Wyborcza reported Tuesday. Warsaw should send a signal before the summer holidays that the missile-defence shield would be set up in Poland, the newspaper report said, citing sources close to the negotiations. If Poland wasn't prepared to host the missiles, the United States would have to find another location for them, the report said. The Polish standpoint remained unchanged, Tusk said ahead of a trip to Latin America.
"Unofficial and informal mutterings" were more "an element of the negotiations than a serious standpoint," Tusk was quoted by the Polish Press Agency as saying in Warsaw.
Washington was pushing for an end to the political negotiations by mid-July, Gazeta Wyborcza reported Tuesday.
Warsaw should send a signal before the summer holidays that the missile-defence shield would be set up in Poland, the newspaper report said, citing sources close to the negotiations.
If Poland wasn't prepared to host the missiles, the United States would have to find another location for them, the report said.
The Polish standpoint remained unchanged, Tusk said ahead of a trip to Latin America.
