Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski will visit Russia next week amid hopes that tensions will ease between the neighbors, Russian foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said Wednesday.
Sikorski will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov next Wednesday and Thursday to discuss Moscow's threats to place missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave near Poland if the U.S. goes ahead with plans for installing part of a defense shield in Europe.
In August, Warsaw struck a deal with the former U.S. administration of George W. Bush to install 10 missile interceptors in Poland.
Moscow is enraged by the plans in its former Soviet-era stamping ground and has threatened to train nuclear warheads on Poland and the Czech Republic, which has also agreed to host a related U.S. radar station.
However, U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the project.
Sikorski will also discuss security of energy supplies from Russia to Europe and the global economic crisis.