Schetyna: Diplomacy means managing instability

“Today’s diplomacy increasingly often means instability management,” Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said during his parliamentary speech on Thursday. “My predecessor left Polish foreign policy in a good condition,” Schetyna said, referring to Radosław Sikorski. “I congratulate him and thank him for that.” Speaking of the current foreign policy priorities, the minister said Poland should think global, especially in the case of economy. He named Germany and France as the country’s most important foreign partners. Schetyna said that Poland feels secure thanks to its membership in NATO, but he expressed concern about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. “This year will be remembered in history mainly as the time when, on the 100th anniversary of the First World War, Russia led to the questioning of the international order in Europe settled after the Cold War,” the foreign minister said. He also said that Poland would not resign from joining the euro zone, but now is not the time for efforts to adopt the EU’s common currency.