Sikorski held talks with congressional leaders and administration officials, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine Gen. Keith Kellogg, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.
The meetings focused on global and European security, particularly Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Officials also discussed Western efforts to use frozen Russian assets, strengthen sanctions on Moscow and deepen transatlantic cooperation, the Polish foreign ministry said.
Sikorski said a ceasefire in Ukraine is "only possible on terms accepted and observed by both parties to the conflict," according to the Polish foreign ministry.
While in Washington, Sikorski also met with analysts from leading think tanks, including the Atlantic Council, American Enterprise Institute, Center for American Progress, Institute for the Study of War, America First Policy Institute and the German Marshall Fund.
Following his visit to the US capital, Sikorski travelled to New York, where he received a collection of documents about the 1940 Katyn Massacre of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet secret police.
The collection, part of the "Katyn Archive," was handed over by Wacław Godziemba-Maliszewski, an American expert in photointerpretation and art conservation, the Polish foreign ministry said.
Sikorski told reporters last week he had asked the United States to support Poland’s bid to join the G20 group of the world's largest economies.
Speaking in Miami after a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Sikorski said he made the request because Poland has now reached the status of a trillion-dollar economy.
The United States will chair the G20 in 2026, giving it influence over invitations to new participants.
“We have the right to be there not only as one of the 20 largest economies, but also as a country that successfully transitioned from central planning to a free-market economy and can serve as an example for others,” Sikorski said.
The meeting in Miami coincided with the presentation of the Lech Wałęsa Solidarity Prize to Cuban dissident Berta Soler.
The award, worth PLN 1 million (EUR 235,000, USD 275,000), was created in 2014 to honour activists working for democracy in various countries around the globe.
Previous recipients include Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, Russian journalist and activist Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, and Belarusian diplomat Pavel Latushka.
Sikorski described the award as “Poland’s pro-democratic Nobel” and said that it helps laureates continue their struggles.
The Polish foreign minister said his talks with Rubio also focused on Polish-American relations, which he described as "very good," and on the review of US military deployments in Europe.
Sikorski said the war in Ukraine was also discussed. He argued that peace would only come when Vladimir Putin recognises his invasion as a mistake, which is why stronger sanctions on Russia and more support for Ukraine are needed.
He highlighted Poland’s role in supporting Kyiv, pointing out that nearly all Western aid to Ukraine passes through Poland, that the country has sheltered millions of refugees, and that it has supplied Ukraine with more tanks than all of Western Europe combined, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP