News - National Security Bureau

President Andrzej Duda on Thursday attended the main National Armed Forces Day celebrations in Katowice, capital of south Poland's Silesia industrial basin.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has promoted five Polish Army officers to the first and subsequent general ranks, and to the counter admiral rank, the National Security Bureau (BBN) announced on Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron will likely visit Poland in the spring, the head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) Paweł Soloch told on Wednesday, a day after France's European affairs minister concluded her visit to Warsaw.

Poland and Lithuania assess the international situation in the same way and are in full agreement as to the direction of actions to be taken, said the head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) Pawel Soloch after his three-day working visit in Vilnius.

After a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Swiss resort of Davos on Thursday, President Andrzej Duda said that he and Stoltenberg agreed that NATO is now "in much better condition than it was just a few years ago."

NATO is in considerably better shape than several years ago, and in 2016 confirmed itself as a real defensive alliance which protects all its members, President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Poland is certain that the resignation of US Secretary of Defence James Mattis will not change the plans to increase the presence of US troops in Poland, Paweł Soloch, the head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), said on Friday.

Head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) Pawel Soloch speaking on Wednesday with Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov confirmed Poland's support for Ukraine's present steps.