The Washington facility is 1 of the key diplomatic networks in Poland. Since November 2024, however, it has not been headed by the ambassador, but by the chargé d’affaires Bogdan Klich – a diplomat who manages the embassy, but has no political or symbolic position like the formal ambassador.
The replacement of the ambassador by chargé d’affaires is acceptable and utilized in crisis situations, but usually as a temporary solution. erstwhile specified a condition drags on for months, it becomes a clear signal to the partners that an interior dispute must take place in the sending country. This is the Polish situation in the US today. Formally, relations continue, but the political burden of contact with the White home is weaker than he could be with a full ambassador.
As Mariusz Witczak said in Polsat News, this diplomatic "half-time" begins to irritate the Donald Trump administration, who would like a clear partner on the Polish side, with a full mandate of the president and Government.
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The core of the conflict is the competence to fill the facilities. abroad Minister Radosław Sikorski reminds in an interview with the "Gazeta Wyborcza" that the existing abroad service regulations clearly indicate the procedure. It is the Minister who is making the motion, and the president is appointing an ambassador. The head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs says that applications for respective twelve appeals and about 40 fresh nominations have already been submitted to Karol Nawrocki's desk and no of them have yet been signed.
The Presidential Palace has another answer to that. The head of the global Policy Office Marcin Przycz convinces that it is essential to establish a common list of names first, and then proceed to formal decisions. Looks like both sides realize the procedure differently. The government insists on implementing the bill, the president expects a political agreement of the full package.
The January gathering of Karol Nawrocki with Radosław Sikorski is to be an effort to get out of this wedge. Until the talk, the diplomatic "block" is being held – candidates are waiting, institutions are working in transition, and the state is not full utilizing its tools internationally.
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Witczak convinces that the signals of discontent with the protracted dispute arrive not only through diplomatic channels, but besides straight at the President's office. According to the MP, the Americans have little and little patience for the situation in which a country considered to be 1 of the key allies in the region is incapable to fill the embassy in the U.S. capital.
“The Americans are pushing for president Nawrocki’s law firm, and an global opinion, due to the fact that there are various sources of pressure, but to kind out the ambassador’s case,” says Mariusz Witczak on Polsat News.
The KO MP besides suggests that president Karol Nawrocki overestimates the quality of his own relations with Donald Trump. His account shows that these contacts are alternatively courteous, not a channel through which Poland is able to "settle" circumstantial interests. In another words, there are clear functions in Washington, D.C., not stories about individual relationships.
From the point of view of the American administration, the deficiency of an ambassador is besides a applicable problem. The ambassador is more than just the face of the state to the host. It is simply a political discussion partner, in which the future of military presence, intelligence cooperation or arms contracts is at stake. A long word vacancy in specified a position is hard to explain only "procedural issues".
