Brussels, 10/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - The American president, Barack Obama, has announced that the Polish will eventually be able to travel to the United States without a visa. For the time being, a visa obligation has been kept in place for four member states of the EU: Poland, Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. All other European citizens may freely travel to the United States under the American Visa Waiver Program (VWP), which should therefore be able to include Poland too. “I am going to make this a priority”, said Obama on Wednesday, speaking alongside the Polish president, Bronislaw Komorowski. “And I want to solve this issue before very long. My expectation is that this problem will be solved during my presidency”, he said, acknowledging that this has been a “source of irritation” between two allies. “The challenge I have right now is that there is a congressional law that prevents my administration from taking unilateral executive action. So we're going to have to work with Congress to make some modifications potentially on the law”, said the American president. “I take these declarations with good faith”, was the reaction of President Komorowski. “I feel simply committed to say that Polish public opinion completely does not understand why all the neighbours of Poland, the neighbourhood of Poland, can use the Visa Waiver Program, and we can't”, he observed. (B.C./transl.fl)