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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CONFIDENTIAL/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Ryszard Frelek, Chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee of the Polish Parliament
Polish Parliamentary Delegation:
Jan Szczepanski
Krystyna Marszalek-Mlynczyk
Tadeusz Maj. Zdislaw Malicki
Kazimierz Morawski
Jan Babinski
Amb. Witold Trampczynski, Polish Ambassador
to the United States
Mr. Kazimierz Duchowski, Counselor, Polish
Embassy
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME: Monday, June 21, 1976
2:12 - 2:25 p.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
DECLASSIFIED
NSC MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES Deview3/12/04
[The press comes in for photos. Frelek presents gold commemor-
ative coins to the Presidnet. There were brief remarks by Frelek and
NARA, DATE 7/27/04
the President about the medals and the fact that Poland is presenting
sculptures of Pulaski and Kosciusko for the Bicentennial].
President: Does everyone in the group speak English?
E.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5
Frelek: About all of them.
President: I understand you just returned from San Francisco.
Frelek: Yes. We did. It was very interesting.
BY
President: Where else did you go?
CONFIDENTIAL/XGDS
TOP SECRET - XGDS (3)
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CONFIDENTIAL/XGDS
2.
Frelek: We went to Boston and we met with the Congress and the
Foreign Relations committees. Then we went to Chicago. First
Secretary Gierek asked that I convey his best wishes and warm
remembrances of your visit last year. I am to convey his feeling
that relations between us have never been better and he is sure that
this relationship will continue to develop.
President: Mrs. Ford and I very much appreciate our trip to Poland.
Frelek: It is our desire to go farther on the improvement of our
relationship. Mr. Gierek came home very satisfied with his visit to
the FRG. He appreciated your role in facilitating relations between
us. He came back very pleased with the way the visit developed.
President: I am pleased to hear that. Following Mr. Gierek's visit,
we wrote to West Germany urging the development of better relations.
Frelek: May I express our deep regret for the tragic events which took
place in Lebanon.
President: Thank you very much. It was a terrible thing. We under-
stand they have caught the people involved.
Frelek: Your words that the death of Meloy will not stop your efforts
for peace were very important.
President: We feel deeply about that. Howare things in Poland?
Frelek: We are doing quite well. Our economy continues to develop
rapidly. We have some problems, such as our exports sometimes are
in conflict with rising consumption at home. We believe our joint trade
will exceed $1 billion this year, ahead of the projection that you and the
First Secretary made.
President: How is the RCA project going?
Frelek: It is doing well; it is definitely underway. We would like to
broaden that type of economic cooperation.
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