The primary goal of foreign policy is to ensure the security of the state, understood as certainty of survival and development, emphasized the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, on Thursday in the Sejm, presenting the tasks of Polish foreign policy for 2024.
Sikorski harshly about Russia
Beginning his speech, Sikorski recalled that when he took over as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he said that “diplomacy is the first line of defense of the Republic of Poland. As he emphasized, the primary goal of foreign policy is to ensure the security of the state understood as certainty of survival and development.
Behind our eastern border, Ukraine has been fighting for over two years against an aggressor whose goal is not only to destroy Ukrainian independence. Russia seeks to overthrow the international order established after 1989 – the logic of law and voluntary alliances is to be replaced by the logic of force, spheres of influence and the dictate of superpowers over their neighbors. Vladimir Putin talks about it openly.
Poland a victim of the “hybrid”
He added that Poland is already facing various forms of hybrid aggression, such as disinformation, cyber attacks, the use of energy dependence, or instrumentalization of migration pressure.
“In such difficult conditions, cooperation is needed not only within the ruling coalition, but also with those representatives of the opposition who are ready to cooperate,” Sikorski emphasized.
As he noted, Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote before his joint visit to the United States with the president:
I differ politically with President Andrzej Duda in almost everything, but when it comes to the security of our homeland, we must and will act together. Not only during a visit to the USA.
“And that’s how we operate,” said the minister.
Sikorski wants cooperation?
He declared that “the offer of cooperation is not addressed only to politicians.” “My speech is addressed to citizens. Everyone. The security of our community should unite us,” he added. However, he said, in order for an agreement to be possible, we must face the truth.
The President and diplomats in the room
President Andrzej Duda arrived on Thursday before 9 to the Sejm, where the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, will present the assumptions of Polish foreign policy for 2024.
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