Prime Minister Donald Tusk decided to set up a committee on the examination of Russian and Belarusian influences on interior safety and interests of the Republic of Poland from 2004 to 2024. It will be headed by Brig-Gen Jarosław Stróżyk, Head of Military Counterintelligence Service, and the first study on the work of this body is to be presented in the summer.
Photo from the nomination of Brig-Gen Jarosław The Guardian as head of SKW.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who met with journalists after the gathering of the Council of Ministers, informed about the appointment of a commission for the examination of Russian and Belarusian influences on interior safety and interests of the Republic of Poland between 2004 and 2024. As the head of the government said, at the head of the committee, according to the Minister of Justice's proposal, the Maj. Gen. Jarosław Stróżyk will be standing. Officer since March this year is Head of Military Counterintelligence Service. He was previously a defence attaché at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C. and Deputy manager of the Board of the Intelligence of the NATO global Military Staff, where he was responsible, among others, for coordinating the activities of the intelligence of the armed forces of the associate States of the Alliance. “He is simply a very competent man,” said the head of government.
As announced by the Prime Minister, the committee is expected to make 9 to thirteen people. The decision on who's gonna be sitting in it is due next week. The candidates will be indicated by ministers: interior affairs and administration, national defence, culture and national heritage (the committee is to address, among others, the impact assessment on the media), finance, abroad affairs, state assets and digitisation, and the coordinator of peculiar services. “I will anticipate experts from different fields,” said the Prime Minister.
Donald Tusk besides reported that the committee set up present would not be a committee of inquiry, and its task would be to first of all to kind out matters that "have outraged the public in fresh years." "The work of this committee will most likely consequence in applications to the prosecutor's office and opinions on why these cases were abandoned in erstwhile years. It will not substance for which governments these things took place," said the Prime Minister. He besides announced that the first partial study on the committee's work should be expected after the European elections, so as not to mix her work with the election campaign. He besides added that the committee's activities would be conducted discreetly, without media participation, but the public would be informed of the results of this work.
– I want that thanks to the work of this committee the atmosphere in Poland, public life in Poland should be freed from the unbearable burden of speculation and speculation, publication of alleged information about the influence of Russian and Belarusian services on the actions of politicians or officials," said Prime Minister Tusk. "We will be waiting for the fast results of the committee's work," he noted.
Prime Minister Tusk besides referred to the information he provided on TVN 24 yesterday. It is about arresting 9 people suspected of conducting acts of sabotage in Poland on behalf of Russia. “Three more people were detained last night,” he said. “The services are working intensively on issues related to attempts to sabotage and diversion in Poland and neighbouring countries, mainly Lithuania and Latvia”, he assured.
