"Prime Minister Donald Tusk spoke with American Vice President Dick Cheney. The talk lasted 40 minutes and was about the current state of the Polish-American negotiations on an anti-missile shield system," a statement said without elaborating.
Polish media said earlier that Tusk's government was not satisfied with Washington's proposals in a first round of talks earlier this week in Washington between the State Department's disarmament expert John Rood and two Polish junior ministers.
The conversation between Tusk and Cheney was planned after a senior US State Department official who asked not to be named told AFP that a "tentative agreement" had been reached following the two days of talks between Polish and US officials.
"At this point, I am really happy that we made real good progress in the past few days," the unnamed official said.
But Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich countered the claim Thursday in Warsaw, saying no agreement had yet been reached to station the proposed US missile shield on the territory of the ex-communist NATO member.
"The negotiations have not ended -- another round of talks was concluded. For the time being we are not at the finish line," Klich told Poland's commercial Radio Zet.
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