“President Andrzej Duda called a meeting on Thursday in connection with preparations for the NATO summit, Jacek Siewiera, the head of the National Security Bureau, said on Wednesday. The heads of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Polish Ambassador to NATO, the Operational Commander of the National Social Security Office and the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces were invited to the meeting.
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, in connection with the preparations for the NATO Summit, invited the Deputy Prime Minister (Head of the Ministry of National Defense) Mariusz Błaszczak, the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau, the Ambassador ( Poland in NATO) Tomasz Szatkowski and the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (General Rajmund) for a meeting at the National Security Bureau tomorrow Andrzejczak) and the Operational Commander of the National Security Office (Gen. Tomasz Piotrowski)
– wrote the head of the BBN on Twitter.
Interview with the head of NATO
On Saturday, the president – observing the actions of the troops in Ustka during this year’s largest exercise of the Polish Armed Forces – ANAKONDA-23 – stressed that Poland remains in constant contact with its allies. He also announced that he would talk to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday and announced that he would soon meet the Polish Ambassador to NATO, and the topic would include: Polish preparations for the Alliance Summit to be held in Vilnius in July will be held.
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On Monday, NATO’s president and secretary general spoke by telephone about preparations for the Alliance’s summit. After the talk, Jens Stoltenberg thanked President Duda for Poland’s most significant contribution in supporting Ukraine’s defense efforts.
Good conversation with President Andrzej Duda in preparation for the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius (11-12 July). I thanked him for Poland’s most important contribution to the self-defense of Ukraine. NATO will continue its support for as long as necessary
Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter.
The head of the President’s Office of International Policy, Marcin Przydacz, said the subject of the conversation between the President and NATO’s Secretary General also included the implementation of postulates important to the Alliance’s eastern flank. In addition, Przydacz said, the NATO president and secretary general also discussed the “general security situation related to the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the emerging threats, these unpredictable situations that Poland has not experienced before”.
Both Poland and the neighboring countries, as well as NATO itself, have to take some adaptation measures, review procedures and also prepare for different kinds of provocative actions, completely under Article 5 or even Article 4. As an alliance, we want to be ready and we want to stay safe and in stability life as before
– said the head of BPM at the time.
BBN meeting
The meeting at the National Security Bureau comes a week after, on May 11, Mariusz Błaszczak, deputy prime minister and head of the Ministry of National Defense, issued a statement referring to the issue of the facility, which had been closed in December last year. fell in Zamość near Bydgoszcz, and in this case on the control issue at DO RSZ. Błaszczak then stated that the Air Operations Center – Air Component Command, subordinate to the Operation Commander of the Armed Forces Forces, was received on December 16 last year. from the Ukrainian side, information about an “object that could be a missile” approaching Poland and that “procedures and response mechanisms related to the object found near Bydgoszcz worked properly up to the level of the Operation Commander”, which did not inform him, “or the relevant services about the object that appeared in Polish airspace.
Responding to the words of the head of the Ministry of National Defense, the operational commander of the Armed Forces of the Polish Armed Forces, General Tomasz Piotrowski, appealed a day later “with good reason, that in the coming days we weigh our emotions very much, that we are reasonable in what we do, that we do not feed a very ambitious and aggressive opponent, do not split into groups.”
The National Security Bureau (BBN) reported on May 12 that the information currently in President Duda’s possession does not justify making personnel decisions regarding the Supreme Command Staff of the Polish Army, and furthermore, the President has not received any request in this case. Subsequently, the Ministry of National Defense announced that the President and Prime Minister had received a report on the inspection of the operation of the Polish air defense system. As stated, the conclusions clearly indicate the negligence of the operational commander of the NSSO.
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On Wednesday, the president, who was visiting Iceland, where the Council of Europe summit is taking place, was asked by journalists if he had read the Defense Ministry report, saying he immediately read it “in detail” , he also submitted it to analysis experts at the BBN The president stressed that he had his conclusions on the matter, but “the report is classified” and its details cannot be discussed publicly.
He states that there are problems with the procedures prepared long ago. He noted that the procedures are there, “but they’ve never been used, because we’ve never been in a situation like that.”
Never have Polish politicians found themselves in this situation. This is about cooperation, the joint performance of tasks: on the one hand civilian leadership of the army, but on the other hand purely military matters. Some elements work well, and some elements work worse or didn’t work
said the chairman.
We will improve it, including NATO procedures
– added.
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Source: wPolityce