Last year, the number of Polish companies taking part in UN procurement processes increased 15-fold compared with 2021, Krzysztof Szczerski said.
He added that the value of contracts granted to Polish companies to provide goods and services to the UN rose to around USD 72 million in 2022, from "less than USD 5 million" the year before.
"We moved from the embarrassing second hundred of the list of the UN suppliers," Szczerski told Radio Poland's Danuta Isler.
He said: "In 2021, we were ranked 158th. Last year, we jumped to 71st position. So we moved up quite significantly, and for the first time Poland is seen as one of the important suppliers of goods and services to the global organisation."
Szczerski told Radio Poland that in 2022 there were 1,080 Polish companies "in the database of potential UN suppliers," twice as many as three years earlier.
Krzysztof Szczerski. Photo: Wojciech Kusiński/Polish Radio
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