MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. Warsaw will not be in charge if US nuclear weapons are deployed to the country as part of NATO’s Nuclear Sharing program, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

"It would be an illusion [to believe] that it’s possible to borrow [nuclear] weapons and gain control of them," the top diplomat noted in an interview with the Rzeczpospolita newspaper. He added that European countries "still fully depend on US guarantees in everything related to nuclear weapons."

Jacek Siewiera, head of the Polish National Security Bureau, in an earlier interview with the newspaper, declined to answer a question about whether Warsaw planned to conclude an agreement with Washington to host nuclear weapons under NATO’s Nuclear Sharing program. He noted that NATO’s "nuclear umbrella" also covered Poland.

Earlier, the Polish authorities expressed such a desire. However, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated in September 2023 that the country’s authorities had not made any advances in their quest to host nuclear weapons.