Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski's speech, originally set for February 11, will be delivered at the next parliamentary session, lower-house Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty told reporters.
Czarzasty said the decision was made after consultations with Sikorski.
Polish lower-house Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty. Photo: PAP/Piotr Nowak
President Karol Nawrocki’s office announced on Tuesday that he had called a meeting of the National Security Council for February 11.
According to presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz, the agenda includes discussion of the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) defence programme, Poland’s invitation to join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, and what the presidential office described as actions by state institutions to examine allegations of Czarzasty’s "social and business ties to the East."
Czarzasty rejected the allegations on Wednesday, saying he had “nothing to reproach himself for” and would attend the national security meeting.
He added that his office had asked for the agenda to be expanded to include an explanation of Nawrocki’s "past contacts with football hooligans and individuals with alleged links to organised crime," including during the president’s earlier work as a security guard at a hotel in the Baltic resort city of Sopot.
The National Security Council is an advisory body to the president and includes senior government officials and parliamentary leaders.
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Source: IAR, PAP