“Ambassadors are appointed and dismissed by the president, so the statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very exaggerated,” said Presidential Minister Małgorzata Paprocka. She says we need to “take a deep breath” and sit at the table at the Foreign Service Convention. A few days ago, the head of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland, Marcin Mastalerek, said that the President would not agree to the dismissal of ambassadors whose terms of office are still valid.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday that the head of the ministry, Radosław Sikorski, has decided to end the mission of more than fifty ambassadors and withdraw several candidacies submitted for approval by the ministry’s previous management. The ministry added that the proposed changes were presented as part of the Foreign Service Convention, and practical appeal procedures were initiated following their acceptance by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. At the same time, it expressed hope “for harmonious cooperation of the country’s main authorities in this matter.”
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Paprocka told Polsat News that the Foreign Ministry’s announcement is “exaggerated to say the least” because ambassadors are appointed and dismissed by the president. She pointed out that the Constitution requires cooperation between the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President in foreign policy matters.
Referring to the journalist’s question whether it was a “purge” of embassies, Paprocka replied: “The question is whether there are really reasons for that.”
I understand Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s statement yesterday when he spoke about the proposed changes in the positions of ambassadors, but it is not the case that there is cooperation in a constitutional sense if the President signs all the Prime Minister’s requests. You need to sit down and talk. (…) I think you need to take a deep breath and sit down at the table at the convention
– said Minister Paprocka.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that he and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski had decided to ask the president for permission for changes in most embassies. He noted that he would not inquire about specific names now.
Either way, we will see a very massive change in the embassies. If there is no other option, we will of course recall ambassadors to the country and until the President’s position changes or the President changes, diplomats acting as chargé d’affaires will be the ambassadors. If this solution satisfies the president, so be it. Somehow we have to build a team that is loyal to the Polish state and that will manage our affairs and the affairs of the Polish state in all embassies.
– Tusk said and vowed that the purge in embassies ‘is not retaliation’. He also stated that he had never been a fan of Poland’s ambassador to the United States, Marek Magierowski, but that he – he admitted – “had a fairly high opinion of his work in Washington.”
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Source: wPolityce