Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski speaks during a joint news conference with Secretary of State John Kerry, Monday, June 3, 2013, at the State Department in Washington.

WASHINGTON — The Polish Foreign Ministry Tuesday confirmed a report in the German newspaper Die Welt that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski outlined a Syria chemical weapons deal similar to that proposed by the Russians to Secretary of State John Kerry well before the current deal became public.

According to Die Welt, Sikorski called Kerry on August 29th and submitted to him a version of the plan later proposed by Kerry and the Russians. He also reportedly talked about the plan in person with Kerry during Kerry's visit to Vilnius, Lithuania, the paper says, presenting it alongside Elmar Brok, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament.

Sikorski's spokesman Marcin Bosacki tweeted out the report, saying it described Sikorski's role in the "creation of a diplomatic plan around Syria":