Warsaw  - Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski

will meet
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

next month to discuss
Afghanistan and a new US proposal for a missile shield, the Polish
Press Agency PAP reported on Wednesday.

Sikorski and Clinton are also set to discuss Polish-American
relations and their strategic partnership.

   Besides Clinton, Sikorski will meet with John Kerry

, chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during his three-day visit,
set to start November 2.

   The visit comes amid a report from the daily Wyborcza that Poland
would add 600 additional soldiers to its mission of 2,000 in
Afghanistan.

   Poland recently said it was ready to participate in a new US
missile shield project in Eastern Europe after US President Barack
Obama

announced in September that Washington was abandoning a
previous missile shield to be jointly hosted in Poland and the Czech
Republic.

   Obama is opting for a system to meet short- and medium-range
threats in place of a more advanced system offered Poland by the Bush
administration.

   The decision was welcomed by Russia, which saw a long-range system
as a threat to its nuclear deterrent. But Polish commentators voiced
concern, noting that the decision could mean Washington valued good
relations with Russia more than keeping promises to Warsaw.

   US Vice President Joe Biden

was in Warsaw on October 21 in a visit
aimed at mending frayed relations with Central and East European
states.
(dpa)