Warsaw — Poland and the US denied on Tuesday media reports alleging that the US had banned high-level meetings with Polish officials in protest over a new law on the Holocaust that has strained Warsaw’s ties with Washington and Israel. A report published by the privately owned Polish news website onet.pl also said Washington had threatened to block funds for joint US-Polish security measures. Polish officials did not immediately comment on that specific report. Poland, which has built close security ties with the US in recent years amid concern over a more assertive Russia, said "bilateral strategic co-operation" with its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) ally remained unchanged. Washington has been very critical of new Polish legislation that makes it a criminal offence to suggest Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, punishable with jail terms of up to three years. Asked about the report of a US ban on top-level meetings with Polish officials, Deputy Foreign Minister Bart...
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