Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, together with leaders of countries of the so called new Europe, will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama in Prague next Thursday, government spokesman Pawel Gras said on Friday..

Apart from Tusk, the meeting is also to be attended by leaders of Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Gras told the Polish news agency PAP that participants in the meeting are to focus on security issues. European leaders will also discuss with the U.S. president the future of NATO.

The goal of the U.S. president is reportedly to assure new NATO members from Eastern and Central Europe that a new disarmament treaty, to be signed in Prague by the Russian and U.S. presidents, is not a threat to the region.

The Thursday meeting is expected to take place in the U.S. embassy in Prague.

Source: Xinhua