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The new Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) will be signed during US Secretary of State Mike Pompe’s planned visit to the Polish capital next week, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said.
He told the IAR news agency that the signing ceremony would be held to commemorate Poland’s 100th victory over the Russian Bolsheviks during the 1920 war in Warsaw.
The message came after US Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced last week that Poland and the US had concluded talks on the EDCA, which should strengthen the two countries’ “long-term defense partnership”. .
Esper said at the time that the deal “would allow the long-term rotating US contingent to be increased by about 1,000 troops” to join “4,500 US troops already deployed to Poland on a rotating basis.”
Blaszczak said late last week that the conclusion of negotiations on the deal was “an important day for Polish security.”
He then added that the two countries “will soon sign a final agreement on the long-term presence of the US military in Poland.”
Earlier this week, officials and soldiers from both countries held a solemn ceremony in the southern Polish city of Krakow, during which they approved plans to establish a new US military headquarters in Poland.
During the event, the US Ambassador to Warsaw, Georgette Mosbacher, stated that “Polish-US relations continue to develop as we strengthen cooperation in the military and civil fields.”
During a meeting at the White House last year, US President Donald Trump and Polish leader Andrzej Duda signed a statement pledging to deploy an additional 1,000 troops to Poland. The two also signed a package of financial agreements.
In September last year, the two presidents signed a defense agreement in areas of Poland where more US troops will be deployed.
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