Jacek Siewiera hosted the meeting at the BBN headquarters in Warsaw on Wednesday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
In attendance were the former BBN heads, Henryk Goryszewski, Marek Siwiec, Stanisław Koziej and Tadeusz Bałachowicz.
The BBN agency aims to support Poland’s president in national security and defence.
After Wednesday’s talks, Siewiera told reporters that the meeting had focused on “strategic challenges facing our country in the coming decades and the planned measures,” in response to “the events beyond our eastern border.”
Siewiera added that the meeting also discussed plans to reform Poland’s military command and defense systems.
Siewiera told reporters that meeting participants had agreed that “Poland must learn the lessons of history as it faces the future and not repeat the mistakes of the past.”
He also announced that President Andrzej Duda had decided to put on hold the appointment of the new commander of Poland’s armed forces and the new head of the Territorial Defence Force until the formation of a new government, the PAP news agency reported.
The president’s view is that these appointments should be made in coordination with the new defence minister, Siewiera said.
On October 10, Duda promoted Gen. Wiesław Kukuła to the position of chief of the army’s General Staff.
The president also named Gen. Maciej Klisz as the new operational commander of the Polish armed forces.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, BBN