The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also request the appointment of Arkadiusz Mularczyk as the government’s plenipotentiary for compensation for damage caused by German aggression and occupation in 1939-1945 – the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told PAP on Thursday. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Łukasz Jasina.
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The appointment of a government plenipotentiary for Germany’s compensation is provided for in the draft ordinance of the Council of Ministers, posted on the government’s website.
In connection with the transfer to the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany of the expectations of the Polish side relating to obtaining compensation for the damage caused by the German aggression and occupation in 1939-1945, as formulated in the note dated October 3, 2022, it is necessary to emphasize the key role of efforts to obtain compensation owed by the German side in the policy of the Republic of Poland towards Germany and to ensure the consistency of political activities in the field of bilateral relations with Germany and the government’s information policy, as well as the coordination of activities undertaken within the specified framework by other bodies of government administration, local government units, non-governmental organizations and other entities involved in obtaining compensation from the Federal Republic of Germany
– underlined in the project.
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He said the appointment of a plenipotentiary “will help coordinate the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government agencies in activities leading to obtaining due compensation from Germany. with the use of tools already existing in the structures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government agencies”. The administrative service of the plenipotentiary is provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the head of the Ministry of Diplomacy is designated as the person responsible for the development of the project.
The expected date of adoption of the project by the Council of Ministers is the fourth quarter of 2022.
On September 1, a report on the losses suffered by Poland as a result of German aggression and occupation during World War II was presented, which shows that the total amount of losses is more than PLN 6 billion 220 billion PLN 609 million. The report was prepared by a team operating during the previous legislature, led by PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk.
At the beginning of October, Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau signed a diplomatic note on war reparations addressed to the German side.
Deputy head of the foreign ministry, Piotr Wawrzyk, later explained that the note to the German government was the implementation of the Sejm resolution, so the phrases used in it “correspond to those used in the resolution. Sejm”. As he recalled, the word reparations appeared in the original draft of the Sejm resolution, whereas the adopted resolution does not contain it.
The head of the German Foreign Ministry Annalena Baerbock, referring to the note sent by Poland, said during her last visit to Warsaw that “the question of reparations from the point of view of the federal government is closed”.
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