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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski @RadoslawSikorski spoke at the UN Security Council on Ukraine yesterday. He devoted his speech to challenging claims made at the forum by Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia that his country is the victim of aggressive Western policies.

VIDEOOn the day after the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea was blown up, former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski (husband of American writer Anne Applebaum) tweeted his THANK YOU to the USA. Soon afterwards, when he found out the new taboo against the blaming the OBVIOUS culprit, he quickly deleted that tweet.

A Polish magazine said Sunday it has obtained recordings of a conversation in which Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says the country’s strong alliance with the U.S. “isn’t worth anything” and is “even harmful because it creates a false sense of security.” In a short transcript of the conversation, a person identified as Sikorski by the magazine Wprost tells former finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, that Poles naïvely believe the U.S. bolsters their security. Using vulgar language, the person argues that such beliefs are nonsense, and that the Polish-U.S. alliance alienates the Russians and Germans. There has been no official confirmation that...

Poland wants to join the eurozone because it is the political heart of the European Union, its foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, has said, with the country looking to enter the single currency by 2020. “In every annual speech to parliament I say that, in my judgment as foreign minister, we should join. I am leader of this process because, politically, we want to be inside,” Sikorski told a group of journalists in Brussels on Monday (20 January). “Our judgment is that in the next decade, the real European Union will be inside the eurozone. And we want to be part...

Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski has called on Britain to abandon its "false consciousness" of euroskepticism and take the lead in EU decision-making. Speaking at the Global Horizons conference at Blenheim palace near Oxford on Friday (21 September), the Oxford-educated Sikorski said Britain's hostility towards the EU is based on "myths." "[The UK] is living with [a] false consciousness ... your interests are in Europe. It's high time for your sentiments to follow," he told the meeting. …

Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski in a private conversation with US diplomats in 2008 said that Germany protects Russian interests in NATO in return for access to the Russian market. According to a US cable recently published by Wikileaks, Sikorski, in a conversation with the then US under secretary for global affairs Paula Dobriansky in Warsaw on 23 April 2008 "Wryly commented that many accused Poland of being the US Trojan horse in the EU when it joined in 2004, but there is another Trojan horse in NATO". The cable went on: "Asked what the US strategy should be towards...

Atlantic Eye: Radek Sikorski's patriotism Published: Nov. 12, 2007 at 9:07 AM By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The people of Poland have spoken. Thankfully, they have dumped Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his xenophobic Law and Justice Party, or PiS, for Donald Tusk. Tusk is the head of the centrist, free-market Civic Platform, or PO. A bone of contention is former Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, now nominated to be Poland's foreign minister, whose appointment Kaczynski has been attempting to block. Sikorski, an independent and severe critic of Communism, resigned as Poland's defense minister last year...

WARSAW, Poland: Poland will deploy some 1,200 troops in Afghanistan by February and will allow them to operate in the volatile southern provinces where allied troops are battling Taliban insurgents, Defense Minister Radek Sikorski said Friday. The troops will be based mainly in eastern Afghanistan, but could be used anywhere in the country to help allied forces, Sikorski said. "They will have their area of responsibility and their area of operations, but if there is an operational need to reinforce our allies, including our British allies, (we) have told our soldiers they have no political restrictions on where they move,"...

Polish Defense Minister Proud to Have Polish Army Protecting Freedom in Iraq by Sebastian Kwiatkowski Posted Apr 24, 2006 Radek Sikorski travelled a long and winding road on his voyage to become Polish defense minister. When communist dictator Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski sent troops to the streets in Poland, Sikorski, at age 18, sought political asylum in Great Britain. Later, with a master's degree from Oxford University in his pocket, he travelled through Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with a Kalashnikov (AK-47) in hand as a war correspondent. As a foreign affairs expert, the author, journalist and World Press Photo prize winner, he is...

Poland will set own course, defense chief vows By Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006 WARSAW Poland's new defense minister, Radek Sikorski, has firmly staked out the country's position as a rising regional power in Europe that will bend neither to Brussels nor Washington but intends to set its own line. Just three months into his job, Sikorski made it clear in an interview Monday night that he intended to pursue an ambitious international military agenda while modernizing the armed forces of a country that, he said, too often paid a high price for being weak in...

Cold War archives reveal Soviet perfidy By Andrew Borowiec THE WASHINGTON TIMES January 7, 2006 GENEVA -- Secret archives of the now-dissolved Warsaw Pact show that the former Soviet Union was prepared to sacrifice much of Poland in the event of a nuclear war with the West. The Soviet plans for a nuclear war in Europe were among a raft of secret documents that Polish authorities threw open on Thursday to international researchers and to the general public in Warsaw. A cursory study by Polish analysts shows that the deployment of Soviet nuclear weapons would have prompted retaliatory strikes by...

Poland names new commander of troops in Iraq 2006-01-03 21:06:31 WARSAW, Jan. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Tuesday named a new commander to lead his country's troops in Iraq after an extended mission was approved by the Polish president last week. General Edward Gruszka, who previously served as commander of Polish troops in Karbala in central Iraq, will command Poland's sixth troop rotation in the Middle East country, Sikorski told a news conference. Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, approved the extension of the country's military mission in Iraq until Dec. 31, 2006, reversing a decision by the...

<p>Poland's decision to spurn the counsels of retreat and re-up for the war in Iraq deserves not only the applause of the Bush administration but tangible military assistance. The announcement was made yesterday by Poland's new conservative president, Lech Kaczynski, on his second day in office. It was his first major foreign policy decision. He approved the maintenance in Iraq of up to 1,500 troops throughout 2006. These Polish troops help provide security to three Iraqi provinces and, while the numbers seem small, this is no minor commitment for a country like Poland that is still recovering from the nightmare of Nazi and Soviet occupation.</p>

„We’ve been dealt the best cards in 300 years” an interview with Radek Sikorski (an interview with Radek Sikorski - LIKELY POLISH DEFENCE MINISTER). Radek Sikorski was born in 1963 in Bydgoszcz. In 1981-1989 he lived in Great Britain and studied political science, philosophy and economy at Oxford University, graduating with Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees. In 1986-1989, he was a war correspondent for the „Spectator” and „Observer” in Afghanistan and Angola, and later the Warsaw correspondent for „The Sunday Telegraph” (1990 - 1991). From 1990 to 1992, he was Rupert Murdoch’s advisor for investments in Poland....