An argument about ambassadors. MFA spokesman: this could be a breakthrough

• Minister of abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski present presented Ambassador nomination Agnieszka Bartol, who will take the position of Permanent typical of Poland to the EU
• In the background of the nomination there is an ongoing dispute over ambassadors on the government-president line
• MFA spokesperson Paweł Wroński stressed that there is another group of diplomats who, as announced by president Andrzej Duda and his surroundings, are to be given approval to take up the positions of fresh ambassadors
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Head of the MFA Radosław Sikorski delivered on Tuesday Ambassador nomination by Agnieszka Bartol, which will take the position of Permanent typical of the Republic of Poland to the EU. Sikorski in the entry on the X platform stressed that he was pleased that it was on Bartol's hands that he could pass on the first ambassadorial nomination. "You are the first female to hold the office of Permanent typical of the Republic of Poland to the EU," wrote the head of the MFA on the X platform.

Wronski, asked by PAP if the nomination for Bartol was a breakthrough in relations with the Presidential Palace regarding ambassadorial nominations, replied: “This is expected to be a breakthrough.” “This is the first individual to be nominated, whose ambassadoral position has been confirmed by the president’s signature,” stressed the MFA spokesman.

I want another nomination.

He added that there was another group of diplomats who, as announced by president Andrzej Duda and his surroundings, were to be given approval to take up the positions of fresh ambassadors. Vronski asked, as far as people are concerned, answered, that about a dozen.

— We hope that there will be as many of them as possible, due to the fact that there is small sense to weaken the position of Polish diplomacy in any way during a difficult, uncertain period. We are very looking forward to the implementation of these announcements (President of Ambassadors), due to the fact that this will service Poland," said the MFA spokesman.

President Margaret Paprock's Chief Chancellery said in early April that Prime Minister Donald Tusk's approval ofThey check candidates for ambassadors in Israel, as well as at the OECD and NATO, i.e. Maciej Huni, Jan Vincent Rostowski and Jack Najder. She besides informed about the presidential nomination for Bartol.

President Diana Głownia's spokesperson besides informed PAP in early April that the abroad Service Convention would examine further candidatures that had received the President's first approval. She besides said that the president on 31 March "signed 1 decision to appoint, while 18 draft resolutions on appointment of ambassadors await the countersignate of the Prime Minister".

The president changed his mind.

According to the reports of ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, The president was to agree to the previously blocked appointments for ambassadors, including: Małgorzata Kosiura-Kaźmierska (Norway), Michał Cholewa (Kuwait), Artur Orzechowski (Estonia), Michał Murkociński (Egypt and Eritrea), Tadeusz Chomicki (Singapur), Jolanta Janek (Panama, neighboring countries of Latin America, Haiti and Dominican Republic).

The Constitution states that the president appoints and dismisses the competent representatives of Poland in another countries and global organisations. The abroad Service Act states that the Ambassador appoints and dismisses the president at the request of the abroad Minister, accepted by the Prime Minister. The Minister of abroad Affairs shall consult the abroad Service Convention before sending a request. The Convention consists of: Minister of abroad Affairs or appointed typical as chairman; Head of abroad Service; typical of the President's Office and typical of the Prime Minister's Office.

The conflict has lasted for months

A dispute between the MFA and president Duda on the appointment of ambassadors ran from March 2024. Sikorski then decided that more than 50 ambassadors would complete the mission, and respective candidatures submitted for acceptance by the erstwhile management of the ministry would be withdrawn. On the another hand, the president stressed that "no Polish ambassador can be appointed or cancelled without the President's signature".

In place of ambassadors who left the facilities but were not formally recalled by the President, the diplomats identified by the MFA, who, due to conflict, do not have the position of ambassadors, but the charge d’affaires — This is the case, for example, in the USA, where the erstwhile head of the MON in the PO-PSL government, Bogdan Klich, replaced Marek Magierowski. president Duda repeatedly made it clear that he did not consider Klich to be the right individual to be Ambassador to the United States.