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The main principles that guide us in our activities are building a national community, strength in alliances and a well-functioning, organized army, after transformation and modernized. These are the goals that we want to achieve over the next 4 years of our term. Of course, these are goals for generations, in fact for Poland and these are not goals only for the armed forces or the Ministry of National Defense. These are goals for our coalition as a whole, extremely important for our entire generation. (...) Today we will show the numbers, we will show the values, we will show the contracts that have been concluded and that we will conclude. To show all those evil tongues that consciously or in their stupidity and ignorance serve our adversaries what the truth is - said Deputy Prime Minister W?adys?aw Kosiniak - Kamysz in Warsaw.
On Friday, October 4, at the headquarters of the Ministry of National Defence in Warsaw, a press conference of the Ministry of National Defence leadership was held to summarise the ministry’s activities.
Deputy Prime Minister W. Kosiniak-Kamysz and Deputy Ministers: Cezary Tomczyk, Pawe? Bejda, Pawe? Zalewski and Stanis?aw Wzi?tek informed about the most important current and planned undertakings of the Ministry of National Defence.
When our predecessors prepared the full budget in 2023, it was about PLN 137 billion. These are expenditures from the budget, from part 29 of the state budget - expenditures of the Ministry of National Defense and the Armed Forces Support Fund, which is located in the Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego. The Polish army, Polish security and transformation have been financed from these two sources for several years. (...) Another year is the year in which we take over power and we are also preparing our part of the budget. We have prepared and introduced significant amendments to this budget, including pay increases for the army and civilian employees of the army by 20%. This has also changed our position and has certainly caused even greater interest in serving in the armed forces. This is a record year that we are in. As of today, it is almost PLN 159 billion, 4.2% of GDP - number one among NATO countries. (...) The Council of Ministers has adopted a record budget for the defense and security of the Polish state. 186 billion 600 million PLN, rounding it up, you could say 187 billion PLN for the security of the Polish state. These are expenses from the budget and the Armed Forces Support Fund, we emphasize this because some people also said that we would liquidate, roll up the army, that its numbers would be smaller, that we would reduce expenses. Some people are still trying to say this today and they are blatantly lying. Poland will spend 4.7% of GDP on armaments next year and that is how much will be written in the budget - Deputy Prime Minister W. Kosiniak-Kamysz noted during his speech.
The head of the Ministry of National Defense discussed the priorities related to strengthening the Polish Army.
We have many priorities. The budget situation is of course tense, but there is full awareness in the entire government, (...) that spending on defense, on security is an absolute priority. Spending on military and non-military activities. Non-military activities included help in the fight against floods and this help for Operation "Feniks" will last as long as needed, so this domain of non-military military activity is also becoming extremely important. That is why our cooperation in the matter of civil defense, joint activities with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration. (...) we are increasing the limits of admission to basic voluntary military service and it was during our rule that the army exceeded 200,000 soldiers and I can proudly say, on our joint behalf, that Poland is the third army in NATO at this moment. (...) We have about 205,000 soldiers. At the end of the year we estimate that it will be 207,500, maybe even more, because the interest in the army is huge. Today we can proudly say that Poland is the third largest NATO army. In terms of expenditure, we are the first country and now what we really care about - the number of troops must go hand in hand with operational capabilities. Training, preparation for receiving equipment, the overall transformation of the Polish Army. This is a key issue for us today. Contracts - we do not terminate them. We improve them, analyze them, reach for new equipment, for new possibilities. We do not act like our predecessors, who, when coming here in 2015, one of the first things they did was terminate an important contract for multi-role helicopters, because they would have been very useful during the flood, and unfortunately we did not have them because someone withdrew from this contract in 2016.– the Deputy Prime Minister noted.
At a press conference summarizing the activities of the ministry under his leadership, the Deputy Prime Minister referred to the issue of financing long-term contracts concluded under the previous leadership of the Ministry of National Defense.
We are talking about a gigantic hole that we have found here. We call it "B?aszczak's hole". The Minister has been saying for many years that everything is ready and buttoned up - that has not come true. (...) Half a trillion zlotys - that is how much we estimate the shortages at- the Deputy Prime Minister noted.
Deputy Minister C. Tomczyk informed, among other things, about the progress related to the construction of the East Shield, which will strengthen the security of the state border.
The National Deterrence and Defense Program "East Shield" is one of the tasks that Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Prime Minister W?adys?aw Kosiniak Kamysz set for us, so that the eastern border of the Republic of Poland, the northern border of the Republic of Poland are safe borders. What did we find? We all know, we can see it in a series of films.
