"At the moment, we have 229 tonnes of gold, of which more or less half was bought during my term in office," Glapinski told conservative magazine Sieci.
"Over the course of a few years we want to buy at least another 100 tonnes of gold and keep it in Poland as well," he said.
Growing optimism for a $1.9 trillion US stimulus plan and rising inflation expectations supported benchmark Treasury yields, which in turn pushed the dollar to a more than one-week peak.