WARSAW, Poland (AP) -Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk insisted his country's preparations to co-host the 2012 European Championship with Ukraine are on track.

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``We are carefully carrying out the plan that we have adopted and that has been accepted by UEFA,'' Tusk said Wednesday at a joint news conference with Michel Platini, the president of European soccer's governing body. ``We still have a lot of work to do, including on stadiums, airports and hotels. They are very ambitious projects, but I assured the president (Platini) that we will do it.''

Poland must build stadiums in Warsaw, Gdansk and Wroclaw, and also overcome gaps in roads and other public infrastructure. Ukraine faces a similar struggle with renovating the Olympic Stadium in Kiev and upgrading its infrastructure.

``We are aware that above all the European Championship demands stadiums,'' Tusk said. He guaranteed his government would complete the construction of the new 55,000-seat national stadium in central Warsaw on time.

Platini stressed last weekend that UEFA has ``no backup plan'' right now, but warned that it could find a new host if progress was not made on stadiums. UEFA's executive committee will review the situation when it meets Sept. 23 in Bordeaux, France.

On Thursday, Platini is to meet Thursday in Kiev with President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and leaders of the Ukrainian Football Federation.