Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa snubs Barack Obama.

POLAND'S Solidarity-era leader, ex-president and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner says he will not accept an invitation to meet fellow Nobel winner US President Barack Obama. "It's difficult to tell journalists what you'd like to say to the president of a superpower. This time I won't tell him, I won't meet him, it doesn't suit me," Walesa told Poland's public broadcaster TVP.
Obama is due to arrive in Poland later today after the G8 summit in France.
Walesa was originally scheduled to meet Obama tomorrow along with other key figures in Poland's post-1989 transition from communism to democracy.
"I expect this meeting would only amount to a photo opportunity," Walesa said.
"I believe one day I will meet with Obama, but not this time," Walesa said, adding he wished the US president "very well, but sometimes things just don't work out to meet".

"He bears hope for Poland, Europe and the world," Walesa added.
The former Polish president also said that he would be flying to Italy tomorrow in line with earlier plans.
According to sources close to Walesa, he was expecting a personal invitation from Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 shortly after taking office.
The US president is today scheduled to attend a working dinner with more than a dozen presidents of ex-communist states, focusing on what lessons their democratic transformation could hold for the Arab Spring.
Tomorrow Obama is due to hold bilateral talks with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the last leg of his European tour which has also covered Ireland and Britain.