President Obama will gaze across the whole region from our capital

“A real, strategic conference will take place in Warsaw – not so much about the challenges facing our region, because it’s now considered secure. It’s here that Obama will be consulting the leaders of our region – who benefit from significant experience – on how to conduct the democratisation of the Middle East and North Africa more efficiently,” Radosław Sikorski told the Polska daily newspaper in an interview.

Asked what he would like President Obama to retain from his trip to Poland, the minister answered “I’m afraid he’ll remember visiting the Grave of the Unknown Soldier and the Ghetto and Smolensk memorials, while his memories of Ireland and London will be of drinking Guinness and playing ping-pong with the PM. I’d rather show the world Poland as a place where life’s getting better all the time, not just a cemetery.” Asked where he would take President Obama if he had two hours to show him Warsaw, Sikorski immediately chose the Copernicus Science Centre.

Read the whole interview in the weekend edition of Polska

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