The Foreign Ministry will seek the appointment of Arkadiusz Mularczyk as well as the plenipotentiary government for compensation for the damage caused by German aggression and occupation in 1939-1945 – Foreign Ministry spokesman ukasz Jasina told PAP on Thursday.

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Earlier this week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that PiS deputy Arkadiusz Mularczyk would soon be appointed as deputy foreign minister.

The appointment of the full ruler of the government for compensation from Germany is regulated in a draft regulation by the Council of Ministers, posted on the government’s website.

In connection with the submission to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany the expectations of the Polish side regarding obtaining compensation for the damage caused by the aggression and occupation of Germany in 1939-1945, as formulated in the note dated October 3, 2022, it is necessary to underline the key role of efforts to obtain compensation because of the German side in the policy of the Republic of Poland towards Germany and ensuring the coherence of political activities in the field of bilateral relations with Germany and government information policy, as well as the coordination of activities carried out within the indicated scope by other government administrative bodies, local government units, non-governmental organizations and other entities involved in obtaining compensation from the Federal Republic of Germany

– is underlined in the draft.

Compensation lawyer

This indicated that the appointment of full powers “will allow the coordination of activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government agencies within the scope of activities aimed at obtaining appropriate compensation from the German side using tools already in place within the structures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government agencies”. The clerical services of the plenipotentiary will be provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the head of the Ministry of Diplomacy is appointed as the person in charge of project development.

The planned date for adoption 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 showed that the total amount of losses was more than PLN 6 billion 220 billion PLN 609 million. The report was prepared by a team operating in the previous parliamentary period, led by Arkadiusz Mularczyk, PiS MP.

In early October, Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau signed a diplomatic note on war reparations addressed to the German side.

The deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Piotr Wawrzyk, later explained that the notes addressed to the German government were implementations of the Sejm resolutions, so the phrases used in them “are the same as those used in the Sejm resolutions”. As he recalls, the word reparations was in the original draft of the Sejm resolution, while the adopted resolution did not contain it.

The head of the German Foreign Ministry Annalena Baerbock, referring to a note sent by Poland, stated during her last visit to Warsaw that “the issue of reparations from the point of view of the federal government is closed”.

time / PAP