WARSAW, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Poland hopes that the incoming Barack Obama administration of the United States will continue the anti-missile shield project, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday.

    "I hope that the new administration of President (-elect) Barack Obama, guided by strategic reasons, will continue the project of anti-missile shield installation," Sikorski said during a ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the United States.

    Sikorski said that recent years' achievements in Poland-U.S. relations strengthened the alliance between Europe and the U.S., according to Polish news agency PAP.

    According to plans confirmed by an agreement between the Polish government and the U.S. administration in August last year, a project of anti-missile defense system in Radzikowo near Slupsk provides for the installation of 10 anti-ballistic missile interceptors.

    Russia opposes the anti-missile shield plan, saying it will threaten Russian national security. Moscow has warned that it will deploy a short-range missile system in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad bordering Poland, in response to U.S. plans to set up a missile shield in central Europe.