WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Angus King, a member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees, was in Poland Friday and Saturday as part of an Intelligence Committee delegation visit focused on national security.
In Warsaw on Friday, King met with officials at the U.S. Embassy and participated in discussions with Polish national security officials at the Ministry of Defense, where they discussed Poland’s important role in regional cooperation in central and eastern Europe.
King met with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Krakow on Saturday to discuss the strong security relationship shared by the two countries as members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
King and the delegation hope to strengthen the relationship, particularly as the region moves to confront terrorism, a migration crisis and continued unrest in Ukraine.
King and members of the delegation also visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, where they laid a wreath in memory of the more than 1.1 million men, women and children who lost their lives there.