Poland's defence minister is seeking a larger presence by the US military in the country, seeing it as guarantee of greater security, local media reported Friday.
Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich met Thursday with US counterpart Robert Gates in Washington to discuss boosting cooperation between US and Polish special forces and basing US fighter jets and transport aircraft in Poland, DPA reported.
"The greater the presence of our allies in our country, the greater Poland's security," Klich told reporters.
He said discussions with the Pentagon touched on the stationing of US troops in Poland and the temporary stationing of F-16s and Hercules transport planes.
Poland is already host to a US Patriot missile battery, which it unveiled in May in Morag, northern Poland, a town some 60 kilometres from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Russia was critical of the move, saying it threatened regional security.