“Today, we are the 21st largest economy in the world, and our ambition is to join the G20. All these successes were possible thanks to peace in Europe. Therefore, in Poland, we sincerely believe that only peace can provide optimal conditions for development. And that is why all imperial ideologies that see conquest as a tool to improve the lives of their own citizens and strengthen the international position of the state, are alien to us,” said Andrzej Duda.
“When I was elected President of the Republic of Poland in 2015, I knew that the attack on Ukraine, which had been carried out by Russia since 2014, marked just the beginning of an effort to violently destroy the international order based on international law,”
the president stated.
He emphasized that “regrettably, his assessments and predictions, especially the ones on the imperial policy of the Russian Federation and the security situation in Europe – materialized.”
“Today, I look back with satisfaction, but also with relief, on all the initiatives to strengthen the security of Poland and Europe. If it was not for them, the Kremlin could have conquered Kyiv long ago, and get ready for further expansion towards Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga or Tallinn,”
he added.
He recalled that in his previous speeches, he had promoted slogans such as “a world based on the power of law, not the law of power.”
“’Peace through law” was the slogan that accompanied me during my speeches before the UN General Assembly and at the UN Security Council during our non–permanent membership in 2018, 2019. Every time I left Poland to travel to the United Nations Headquarters, I kept in mind that this organization should care for and guarantee respect for the law in order to maintain peace and security across the world,”
said the Polish president.