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Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Friday said that 78 years after the outbreak of the Second World War, there was a need for remembrance, forgiveness and atonement.

"I am convinced that you will be able to fulfil tasks facing you, and that in the future the Polish Navy will have a professional staff ready for brave decisions", President Andrzej Duda wrote in a letter to graduates of the Naval Academy in Gdynia.

Deputy head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), Dariusz Gwizdala, said that the defence ministry's Startegic Defence Review was not binding for President Andrzej Duda, but represented a starting point for discussions on developing Poland's armed forces.

At their face-to-face meeting in Warsaw late on Thursday, Polish President Andrzej Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discussed the implementation of last year's NATO summit decisions, the Polish President's Office has announced.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg started his two-day visit to Poland by meeting with President Andrzej Duda in the Belweder Palace late on Friday. The Zapad military exercises and the security of NATO's eastern flank were on the agenda.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday, three weeks before Russia's big manoeuvres in Belarus, called Zapad 2017.

Pawel Soloch, head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) on Monday said the recent terrorist attacks in Spain were linked to the "most radical sections of Islam".

Pawel Soloch, head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), on Friday said the dispute between President Andrzej Duda and the Defence Ministry was partly over the former's say in the army's command and leadership system.

President Andrzej Duda, in a speech on Armed Forces Day on Tuesday, called on the Polish people to unite in shaping the army.

Poland and the United States play a vital role in building NATO's deterrence ability, General Ben Hodges, commanding general, United States Army Europe, said on Tuesday.