The meeting between President Karol Nawrocki and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski began at around 2 p.m. and lasted nearly two hours, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
Neither Nawrocki nor Sikorski, who stand on opposite ends of the political spectrum, briefed reporters afterward.
Foreign ministry spokesman Maciej Wewiór said in a statement that the meeting "took place in a good, constructive atmosphere, in the spirit of understanding."
"We are moving toward finding a solution to the circumstances facing both sides. We hope to see results soon," Wewiór added in a post on the X social media platform.
The talks came amid tense cohabitation between the centrist government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the conservative president, an ally of the right-wing opposition.
Ahead of the meeting, the president's foreign policy adviser, Marcin Przydacz, said many Polish diplomatic missions abroad were headed by chargés d’affaires rather than ambassadors, calling the arrangement "suboptimal."
Przydacz blamed the impasse on Sikorski's decision in 2024 to recall more than 50 ambassadors without what he described as proper justification.
He said Nawrocki expected "concrete steps" from the foreign minister.
Wewiór countered that Sikorski had already submitted a proposal to resolve the dispute after a previous meeting with the president and that it had gone unanswered for more than three months.
He called on the president to sign ambassadorial nominations that have been awaiting approval for more than five months.
The standoff dates back to March 2024, when Sikorski recalled dozens of ambassadors and rejected several nominees put forward by his predecessor, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Then-President Andrzej Duda insisted that ambassadors cannot be appointed or recalled without the president's signature.
Since then, the foreign ministry has staffed affected posts with chargés d’affaires. Nawrocki has been particularly opposed to the nominations of Bogdan Klich as chief of mission in Washington and Ryszard Schnepf as chargé d’affaires in Italy, PAP reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP