2025-12-18 20:00, updated 2025-12-18 20:15
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On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will pay an official visit to Poland. He will meet with President Karol Nawrocki, with whom he will talk about security, economy and historical issues. He will also visit the Sejm and Senate, where he will meet with Marshals Włodzimierz Czarzasty and Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska.
This will be the first visit of a Ukrainian leader to Warsaw since Karol Nawrocki was sworn in as president. According to the KPRP, both presidents are to talk about security, economy and historical issues.
President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Poland on Thursday, where on Friday he will meet with the President of the Republic of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, the Ukrinform news agency reported, citing the Office of the President of Ukraine.
According to the program published by KPRP, the official welcoming ceremony of the President of Ukraine by President Nawrocki is scheduled for 10 in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace. At At 10.15 there will be a one-on-one meeting of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine. From At 11.00 there will be plenary talks between delegations led by both presidents. Before A meeting between Nawrocki and Zelensky with media representatives is planned at 12 p.m.
The president's spokesman, Rafał Leśkiewicz, emphasized on Radio ZET that three topics will be discussed during Friday's conversation in Warsaw: security, economy and historical issues. According to him, Nawrocki will personally assure Zelensky of Poland's continued support for Ukraine. He added that the president will also appeal for the commencement of search and exhumation work in Volhynia. The presidents are also to talk about the Polish contribution to the reconstruction of Ukraine and the issue of the competitiveness of Ukrainian agriculture, he announced. – This will be a man's conversation – said Leśkiewicz.
After the talks at the Presidential Palace, Volodymyr Zelensky will go to the Sejm to meet with Marshal Vladimir Czarzasty. Both will also lay flowers in front of the plaque commemorating members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland who died during World War II. Zelensky's visit to the Sejm is scheduled for 13.15. According to the program, the meeting will last approximately 45 minutes. The Deputy Speaker of the Sejm, Monika Wielichowska, and the head of the Sejm Foreign Affairs Committee, Paweł Kowal, will also take part.
Czarzasty told journalists on Thursday that during the meeting with Zelenskiy “it may be necessary to correct certain words that may have been uttered before.” – We may need to remind what the Polish government, which shapes Polish foreign policy, has to say on this matter. The Head of the Chancellery of the Sejm, Minister Marek Siwiec, contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and agreed on the issue of the transfer. This is how it should be, because foreign policy is created by the government, and all other bodies should transmit this policy, emphasized the Marshal of the Sejm.
Zelensky's speech in the plenary chamber of the Sejm is not planned. Czarzasty emphasized that “there is no ill will or good will here.” – This is the plan of the visit and that's it. There are no bad emotions here, he added.
Later, the President of Ukraine will also visit the Senate, where at 14 will meet with Marshal Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska.
Zelensky will probably also meet Prime Minister Donald Tusk during his visit to Warsaw. The head of the Polish government, who is in Brussels for a meeting of the European Council, announced that if the summit does not extend too long, he will most likely meet with the president of Ukraine on Friday afternoon.
A summit of EU leaders is taking place on Thursday in Brussels, the main goal of which is to provide further financial support to Ukraine. The summit is scheduled to continue on Friday. As the head of the European Council, Antonio Costa, said, the meeting will not end until a decision is made on how to finance Ukraine.
– President Zelensky said that he could not imagine visiting Poland without meeting me, for obvious reasons, because the government also implements policy towards Ukraine. I warned him that it was also in his interest for me to stay on the European Council until the end. He said he would wait one way or another, Tusk told journalists.
Leśkiewicz: Deputy Minister Bosacki will be in the delegation to the meeting of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The delegation to the meeting of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine will include a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the deputy head of this ministry, Marcin Bosacki, informed the president's spokesman, Rafał Leśkiewicz, on Thursday. This information is confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, noting that Bosacki was not part of the delegation this morning.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who is visiting Poland on Friday, will meet, among others, with President Karol Nawrocki. According to the program posted by KPRP at At 10.15 there will be a one-on-one meeting of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine. From At 11.00 there will be plenary talks between delegations led by both presidents.
On Thursday morning, Bosacki said on TVN24 that there would be no representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Polish delegation at the meeting of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine. – Again, no government representative is invited to the president's delegation. This is absolutely inconsistent with the constitution, which requires the president, I want to say this very strongly, to cooperate with the government in international affairs, he emphasized.
Presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz, asked by PAP about this matter in the morning, emphasized that the final preparations for President Zelenskiy's official visit to Warsaw are underway. “While preparing the visit, we are in constant contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he assured. He said that Bosacki's “formulation of allegations” regarding the composition of the delegation to the president was frivolous and unprofessional. “Before the visit of the President of Ukraine, which is important for Polish-Ukrainian relations, he is trying to start a political row,” said Leśkiewicz. He emphasized that the agenda of the planned meeting of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine includes topics related to security, economy and historical matters.
In the afternoon, the president's spokesman told PAP that Bosacki would be represented in the delegation to the Foreign Ministry meeting. He assessed that in this situation the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not tell the truth.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs argues that Bosacki was not part of the delegation in the morning. – The invitation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came around noon – ministry spokesman Maciej Wewiór told PAP.
Bosacki also said on TVN24 that the compromise proposal from the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, to President Karol Nawrocki regarding ambassadors was a very far cry. He recalled that at the beginning of December, Sikorski published a scan of a letter sent to the president in October, in which the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared his willingness to solve the problem, but – as he said – there was no response.
Bosacki was asked whether Sikorski had made a proposal to Nawrocki that out of 100 ambassadors, 10 would be nominated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 10 by the President, and another 80 would be professional diplomats from outside the political spectrum. – I confirm that there was a proposal – replied Bosacki.
In response to the comment that this information was not included in the disclosed letter, he explained that it was included in the annex to the letter. – It's hard to reveal personal details, and I won't do it either – he noted. When asked why the content of the letter was made public, he emphasized that “the president's officials lied and said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, i.e. the minister and deputy prime minister Sikorski, did not respond to the president's compromise proposals.”
– It was exactly the opposite. The gentlemen met, the president listened and verbally accepted the compromise from Minister Sikorski, but then, unfortunately, he did not respond to the clearly specified written compromise proposal for three months – added the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The dispute over ambassadorial nominations between the government and the president (then Andrzej Duda) has been ongoing since March 2024. Then the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided that over 50 ambassadors would end their mission, and several candidates submitted for approval by the previous management of the ministry would be withdrawn. Andrzej Duda, however, emphasized that “no Polish ambassador can be appointed or recalled without the president's signature.”
The ambassadors who left their posts but were not formally recalled by the president were replaced by diplomats designated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who do not have the status of ambassadors, but charge d'affaires. This is the situation, for example, in the USA, where the former head of the Ministry of National Defense in the PO-PSL government, Bogdan Klich, replaced Marek Magierowski.
At the end of September, Karol Nawrocki emphasized that there was no possibility for Bogdan Klich and Ryszard Schnepf (chargé d'affaires in Italy) to receive ambassadorial nominations.
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