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The NATO summit in Newport, Wales, has brought no basic discord regarding the reinforcement of NATO's eastern flank, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said Thursday in Newport.

President Bronislaw Komorowski has convened a meeting of the National Security Council (RBN) for September 9 to discuss the results of the NATO summit in Newport.

The upcoming NATO summit should turn security guarantees for Central and Eastern Europe into tangible arrangements and solutions which will strengthen the alliance's eastern flank, President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Wednesday.

Poland will demand a strengthening of NATO's eastern flank and increased military spending by NATO members, said President Bronislaw Komorowski in a speech on Polish Armed Forces Day. He and other officials watched a military parade in Warsaw Friday.

Head of Poland's National Security Office (BBN) Stanislaw Koziej said on Friday he hoped that NATO would decide to strengthen its eastern flank at the NATO summit in September. Poland invites allied forces to construct bases and airfields here, he added.

Sirens sounded throughout Warsaw at exactly 5:00 p.m. on Friday, the exact time of the August 1, 1944 outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising against the city's Nazi occupants to mark the insurgency's 70th anniversary.

Infringement of the INF Treaty by Russia, as reported by the US State Department Tuesday, affects the area of strategic deterrence which is very important for Poland's security, Stanislaw Koziej, head of the National Security Office BBN, said Wednesday.

The Ukrainian-Russian conflict is the biggest challenge for European security since the time of the Cold War, according to President Bronislaw Komorowski. The Polish president is in favour of strengthening NATO's eastern flank.

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday spoke about the situation in Ukraine, preparations for the upcoming NATO summit and the transatlantic community’s response to the recent downing of a Malaysian jetliner in Ukraine.

President Bronislaw Komorowski believes that attempts to destabilise the Ukrainian state, their effects including the shootdown of a Malaysian passenger liner on Thursday, are not just Ukraine's problem but a global one.