Posted on June 29, 2021. U.S. President Joe Biden decided to hold a brief meeting with Andrzej Duda on the sidelines of the NATO summit. Washington realized that the boycott of the Polish government had gone too far. A few minutes before 2 p.m., Krzysztof Szczerski, head of the International Relations Bureau in the Presidential Chancellery, published a photo of the two leaders standing side by side on Twitter. The politicians were touching each other with their elbows in a pandemic-era greeting. It is hard to see their facial expressions because they wear masks. Szczerski stressed that the talk “was held at the invitation of Americans and concerned Polish-American cooperation concerning the broadly understood military and economic security of our region.”