The United States has officially asked the Polish government to authorize Brzezinski for the role, Rzeczpospolita daily reported on Wednesday.
It cited sources it did not name as saying that the request could take up to three months to process, which means that Brzezinski should be approved by September.
Born in 1965, Brzezinski is a lawyer, political scientist and diplomat fluent in Polish. He received a Ph.D. from Oxford University for a dissertation on constitutional reform in Poland.
Mark Brzezinski. Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczyński
In 2007, he received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit from Poland in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of Polish-American relations.
One contentious issue is that the diplomat has dual US and Polish citizenship. He is the son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish-born former US national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Rzeczpospolita reported.
Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, pictured in 2016. Photo: Terje Bendiksby/NTB via PAP
A similar problem appeared in the fall of 1993 when President Bill Clinton nominated Nicholas Andrew Rey for envoy to Warsaw, according to the Polish paper.
At the time, Rey renounced his Polish citizenship and took over as ambassador on December 21, 1993, Rzeczpospolita reported.
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Source: Rzeczpospolita