Abstract
Information of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Polish Foreign Policy Tasks is an annual speech presenting the main line of action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland. The aim o f the article is to present the assumptions for 2019 through the prism of soft power. Attractiveness of culture and values offered by the state, being the fundamental attributes of soft power understood as the ability to create other preferences of people, which may influence the way institutions and even the international system function, are important factors forming foreign policy, although in the case of Poland this range is limited only to the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Since Jacek Czaputowi cz was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, historical policy as well as greater involvement of the Polish community in building a positive image of Poland on the international arena have been included in this catalogue. The text consists of four main pa rts. The first one is a theoretical layer, which is an introduction to the soft power of the title. The next is the placement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the political scene and the presentation of the assumptions for 2018. The last one is devote d to soft power categories in the Information on the tasks of Polish foreign policy for 2019. It was divided into four smaller parts, each preceded by a theoretical introduction: norms and values; the importance of the historical factor in the creation of soft power; culture; diplomacy; the role of the Polish community in building the image of the Republic.
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Information of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Polish Foreign Policy Tasks is an annual speech presenting the main line of action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland
Information of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Polish Foreign Policy Tasks is an annual speech presenting the main line of action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland for the current year
The analysis of the annual speech is commented primarily in an inner circle of researchers work on public diplomacy, classical diplomacy, international image of states and foreign policy, such as Magdalena Ratajczak, Beata Ociepka, Marta RyniejskaKiełdanowicz
Summary
Information of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Polish Foreign Policy Tasks is an annual speech presenting the main line of action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland for the current year. The most glaring examples are thought abbreviations perceived in Poland as intentional misrepresentations, especially when they appear in the German media: “Polish death camps” or “Polish extermination camps” (Obama angers Poles with 'death camp' remark, 2012) concerning Nazi (German) camps located on the present-day Polish territory (Poland, during World War II, was under German occupation and could not oppose the criminal policy of the Third Reich) To this end, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with representatives of the Polish community, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute or the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation, have taken a number of measures to disseminate knowledge about the history and heroic attitudes of Poles, including the production and promotion of a film about the members of the so-called Berne Group (a group of Polish diplomats who during the Holocaust issued about 5000 false passports to Jews, thanks to which about 1500 people could survive), or the “Armoured Wings” exhibition in Brussels commemorating the soldiers of General Maczek – the liberators of Flanders. The effect of trilateral cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Polish Television and the local community of Polish journalists is to create the TVP Vilnius channel, whose task will be to provide the Polish community with information about contemporary Poland, its culture and history (Ratajczak, 2012)
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