HERE ONLY. Attack on the President. Minister Kumoch reacts

Posted On: October 23, 2022

“There is a growing belief that we are a global province that should shut up. We are not going to be silent. During the conflict in Ukraine, Poland showed that it can shape global and regional politics,” Minister Jakub Kumoch, head of the Presidential Office for International Policy, told wPolityce.pl.

The conversation between President Andrzej Duda and the Iranian President has caused … the indignation of some liberal left journalists and commentators. After hysterical comment Radosław Sikorski, Bartosz Wieliński from Gazeta Wyborcza decided to win the name of the most stupid opinion in the talks of the head of state.

The “GW” columnist said, among other things, that Poland is not a player in the Middle East anyway, and that there is nothing to convince Iran.

“Absurdity and lack of logic in the text”

Minister Jakub Kumoch notes that the texts in which the president is attacked for having spoken to the Iranian leader are only journalism and should not be taken seriously. He stressed that Andrzej Duda will continue talks with the leaders of countries outside Europe, as they also often have an influence on the issue of the war in Ukraine.

Our interlocutor believes that the critical opinions that have arisen among several opposition figures after President Andrzej Duda’s conversation with the Iranian President result from the complexity and the prevailing false opinion that nothing depends on Poland.

There is a growing belief that we are a global province that should shut up. We are not going to be silent. During the conflict in Ukraine, Poland shows that it can shape global and regional politics

– said.

Referring to the suggestion in Wieliński’s text that President Andrzej Duda, speaking with the Iranian leader, “authorized bloody regimes”, Minister Kumoch said that “these are offensive words, even commenting on them is below of the level”.