US President Donald Trump has invited Poland’s newly inaugurated head of state, Karol Nawrocki, to the White House for an official working meeting on 3 September, the Polish president’s office confirmed on Saturday. The agenda will focus on security and economic cooperation, according to Marcin Przydacz, the minister in charge of international policy at the Presidential Chancellery.

The invitation was first disclosed by the head of the President’s Cabinet, Paweł Szefernaker, who posted on X that Trump extended the offer in a formal letter delivered on Nawrocki’s inauguration day. “Another campaign pledge fulfilled — right on schedule,” Szefernaker wrote.

Speaking to Polsat News, the head of President’s Foreign Office Marcin Przydacz revealed that discussions with Washington began in the earliest days after Nawrocki’s election. 

“I was personally in the White House and the Pentagon. We talked about shaping our relations under the new leadership of the Presidential Palace. I’m very pleased that President Trump invited President Nawrocki. It was one of Nawrocki’s campaign promises that his first visit abroad would be to Washington,” he said.

Security, particularly the situation on Poland’s eastern border, will dominate the talks. Przydacz added that economic and energy cooperation would also be high on the agenda.

“The United States is a key supplier of energy resources to Poland, notably liquefied natural gas, and an important partner in building our nuclear power plant. The president wants Poles to have access to affordable electricity, something this cooperation can help deliver,” he noted.

Another major topic will be joint work on new technologies. Presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz told PAP that the meeting would also cover NATO security, relations with Ukraine and the stationing of US troops in Poland. “We are the eastern flank of NATO, but also an important economic and political partner for Ukraine,” he said.

Leśkiewicz stressed that the 3 September visit will be Nawrocki’s first major foreign trip as president. He recalled that the invitation was first raised in a congratulatory phone call from Trump shortly after the election results were announced. 

“It was a very substantive conversation, and that’s when the offer to come to Washington was made,” he said.

Nawrocki has previously indicated that he would like to visit the Vatican early in his presidency. According to Leśkiewicz, a stop in Rome en route to Washington is “not out of the question.” 

The president will also attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly later this year.

Source: PAP

Photo: The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

Tomasz Modrzejewski