“On his way back from Washington, in line with what he promised during the election campaign, the President will also pay an official visit to the Vatican and meet with the Pope on September 5,” announced Karol Nawrocki’s Chief of Staff, Paweł Szefernaker, on Thursday.
On September 3, President Karol Nawrocki will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. This will be his first foreign visit. Szefernaker spoke about it on Kanal Zero.
“President Trump wants to talk with the President of the Republic; he takes him seriously, and Poland’s voice will be heard in Washington,” he said, emphasizing that the U.S. leader does not invite many European heads of state, and that this meeting will take place just one month after Nawrocki’s inauguration.
Szefernaker then revealed where Nawrocki would go immediately after his talks with Trump. “On his way back from Washington, in line with what he promised during the election campaign, the President will also pay an official visit to the Vatican and meet with the Pope on September 5,” he stated.
“I remember when this commitment from the President was made during the debate in Końskie, that first debate where we were invited by Rafał Trzaskowski’s campaign team. It was there that the President said he would like his first visit, if he became President, to take place in Washington, with a stopover at the Vatican. And when I later spoke with Minister Marcin Przydacz, he recalled that when he heard it during the debate, he thought to himself that it would indeed be very difficult for the minister who would have to organize such a visit, because after all, synchronizing the schedules of presidents and the Pope is no easy task,”
Szefernaker recalled.