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 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said he sought advice from Polish President Lech Kaczynski Thursday about Ukraine, which Kaczynski is hoping to help bring into the NATO alliance in the next two years.
In their first meeting since Kaczynski took office in December, the two leaders discussed trade and other international issues during a meeting that started in the Oval Office and led to lunch in the executive residence.
Poland is one of the strongest U.S. allies in Europe, and Bush said he thanked Kaczynski for their support of the war in Iraq. They also discussed Kaczynski's desire for NATO to expand to include its neighbor Ukraine, which used to be part of the Soviet Union and is now a democracy, by 2008.
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