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U.S. Secretary of Defense Visits Poland

25 April 2007

Left to right, U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, and Polish Minister of Defense Aleksander Szczyglo pay respects during the playing of the national anthem during an honor cordon ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, April 24, 2007. 

U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, visited Poland April 24-25.  Secretary Gates met with Polish President Lech Kaczynski, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Minister of Defense Aleksander Szczyglo, Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga and a group of Polish parliamentarians to discuss U.S.-Polish cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the U.S. proposal to place missile defense assets in Poland.  “Poland – through its courage, its commitment to common values, and, yes, its suffering at the hands of Nazis and Communists – taught us that, in the end, freedom is indivisible.  Poland taught us that the security of nations, and perhaps of all free nations, cannot be maintained in isolation,” said Secretary Gates.

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