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27 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 23:36 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

US President Barack Obama is wrapping up his six-day European tour in Warsaw, meeting Polish political leaders.<\/p>\n

The meetings will focus on defence and energy issues but Mr Obama will also seek to reassure Poles unhappy at his shelving of his predecessor’s missile defence shield.<\/p>\n

On Friday Mr Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and visited the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial.<\/p>\n

He also attended a dinner with 20 central and eastern European leaders.<\/p>\n

Shale gas<\/span><\/p>\n

The BBC’s Stephen Evans in Warsaw says Polish leaders hope Mr Obama will rectify what many saw as a slight when Mr Obama cancelled President George W Bush’s missile shield plan.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent says Polish leaders were disappointed when President Obama decided not to go ahead with the shield on Polish soil, reading it as deference to Russia and as a sign of a lack of commitment to Poland.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama will meet President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The US has announced at least one new initiative on security.<\/p>\n

White House national security official, Liz Sherwood Randall, travelling with Mr Obama, said a US air detachment would be set up in Poland.<\/p>\n

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The breadth of the US-Polish agenda speaks volumes as to the increasing significance of Poland as a European actor, both within Nato, and the European Union\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jonathan Marcus<\/span> BBC diplomatic correspondent<\/span><\/p>\n

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“It will be a small permanent presence on the ground and then a rotational presence that will be more substantial,” she said.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Obama has not granted Poland’s desire for a visa waiver for its citizens travelling to the US.<\/p>\n

One key area under discussion will be energy.<\/p>\n

Poland has reserves of shale which hold natural gas.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent says Germany and Russia do not want those reserves opened up, Germany for environmental reasons and Russia perhaps because it currently exports much gas to the whole region.<\/p>\n

He says the hope in Warsaw is that Mr Obama will support the opening of the shale reserves, ideally with the help of American energy companies.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, Mr Obama told the gathered eastern and central European leaders: “We have taken great inspiration from the blossoming of freedom and economic growth in this region and we’re confident that will continue and we want to be a part of that process of strengthening your democracies, strengthening your economies and to be a full partner.<\/p>\n

“I hope that… this [meeting] signifies how important we consider our relationship with central and eastern Europe”.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Mr Obama placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw.<\/p>\n

He also greeted Holocaust survivors at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes.<\/p>\n

Hours before Mr Obama’s arrival, Polish headlines were dominated by reports that Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was refusing to meet him.<\/p>\n

Mr Walesa said he feared such a meeting would only be a “photo opportunity”, amid reports that he was offended for not being offered a one-on-one meeting with the US president.<\/p>\n

“I believe one day I will meet with Obama but not this time,” Mr Walesa told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

He wished the US president “very well”, then added, “but sometimes things just don’t work out”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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