Paweł Wroński, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced that Jan Tombiński has become the new ambassador to Germany. Next week, the Polish missions in Bratislava and Rome will be taken over by Piotr Samerek and Ryszard Schnepf, said Paweł Wroński, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Piotr Łukasiewicz will take up his post in Kyiv on September 1.
The premises in Berlin have now been taken over by Mr. Jan Tombiński, which took place in a very pleasant atmosphere. On August 26, the Bratislava and Rome offices are taken over by Messrs. Piotr Samerek and Ryszard Schnepf. We are ready for September 1st assumed by the director Małgorzata Kosiura-Kaźmierska from the installation in Oslo – said Paweł Wroński, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to him too On September 1, the post in Kiev will be filled. It will be managed by Piotr Łukasiewicz.
Wroński noted that most of the changes in diplomatic missions are expected to be carried out by the end of September.
Jan Tombinski is a German scholar, historian and diplomat. In 1996-1998 he was Ambassador to Slovenia, in 2001-2006 to France, in 2007-2012 – Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the European Union, and then EU Ambassador to Ukraine (2012-2016) and to the Holy See (2016-2020). He is fluent in English, German, French, Slovenian, Czech and Ukrainian.
Ryszard Schnepf is a diplomat, historian, Iberian scholar, lecturer and government official. In 2005-2006 he was Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and, in 2007-2008, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also been Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Uruguay (accredited to Paraguay), Costa Rica (accredited to other Central American countries), Spain (accredited to Andorra) and the United States (accredited to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas).
On the other hand Piotr Leszek Lukasiewicz is a political scientist, diplomat, colonel in the reserves of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland and, in 2012-2014, Polish Ambassador to Afghanistan. In the years 1995-2006, he dealt with issues related to state security and the fight against terrorism. He served in stabilisation missions in Iraq (2004-2005). In 2006, he was deputy military attaché in Islamabad and, in January 2007, he became colonel and military attaché in Afghanistan – a position he held for three years. In October 2009, he became plenipotentiary of the Ministry of National Defence for Afghanistan. In this position, he co-created, among others, the Polish Strategy of Military Presence in Afghanistan.
In 2012, he joined the reserves as a colonel and later became ambassador to Afghanistan. He completed his mission on December 31, 2014. After returning, he became involved in journalism, teaching and forensic activities.
Małgorzata Kosiura-Kaźmierska is the former director of the Eastern Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Piotr Samerek is also associated with the Ministry of Diplomacy and has worked, among others, in embassies in the Netherlands and the Vatican.
In March of this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Minister Radosław Sikorski decided that more than 50 ambassadors would complete the missionand several candidates submitted for approval by the previous ministry management will be withdrawn. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed hope for harmonious cooperation between the country’s top authorities in this matter.
According to the law, the ambassador is appointed and dismissed by the president. The head of the president’s office, Marcin Mastalerek, said that Andrzej Duda does not agree with the mass recall of ambassadors without specific reasons or grounds.
In early June, in an interview with Telewizja Republika, the president stated that the recruitment of staff in diplomatic missions “is carried out using methods coming directly from the most well-known services – this is what is being done to many Polish diplomats today and has been done for a long time.”
He also announced that while he holds office he will not sign, among other things, the appointment of Bogdan Klich as ambassador to the United States. He stressed that there would be no signature on the appointment of Ryszard Schnepf or other members of the Conference of Ambassadors of the Republic of Poland..
