Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Friday said the Polish and Baltic stance on Georgia at an upcoming European Union summit "won't be completely radical, but radical enough", reported dpa.
"We will defend Georgia to the end, to the fall," the Polish Press Agency (PAP) quoted Kaczynski as saying on his return from a meeting in Tallinn of the heads of Baltic states Estonia and Latvia and a representative of Lithuania's president.
The politicians had met Thursday to work out a common stance on Georgia before Monday's EU summit on the issue. Kaczynski declined to give further details after the meeting, saying there's no common stance yet, but that two variances were being considered by the group of leaders, PAP reported.
Kaczynski also declined to say whether he would present that stance at the EU summit.
The question on who would speak for Poland at the summit has caused a split between Poland's more hard-line presidency, which advocates a tougher stance against Russia, and the premier's chancellery, which calls for working alongside the EU.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk will attend the EU summit along with Kaczynski. The two leaders met early Friday morning on the Georgia issue, but both declined to comment afterwards.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev formally recognized Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent on Tuesday, defying Western criticism. The breakaway provinces fueled a brief but bloody Russian-Georgian conflict earlier this month.
Poland's Foreign Ministry immediately called for respecting Georgia's territorial integrity. The United States also slammed Russia's recognition, while the EU reaffirmed support for Georgia.
Medvedev stressed that Russia has long held back from recognizing the regions' pleas for independence, but Georgia's attack on South Ossetia had forced its hand.
A poll published in the daily Rzeczpospolita on Friday said about half of Poles think the Russian Federation's politics towards its neighbours is as aggressive as that of the former Soviet union.