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Ceremony to confer diplomatic ranks and the launch of new edition of diplomatic and consular training

11.09.2019

“There are many ways to describe the service you have decided to choose. It is unique not only because it is sometimes perceived as an elite profession but also because it is very demanding,” Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said during today’s ceremony at the MFA Diplomatic Academy.

Ceremony to confer diplomatic ranks and the launch of new edition of diplomatic and consular training

The first diplomatic ranks were awarded to eighteen persons who have successfully passed the diplomatic and consular exam. They include fourteen diplomatic and consular training graduates and four MFA staff. The new diplomats took their oath before Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz and received diplomas from Director General of the Foreign Service Andrzej Papierz.

“Diplomatic service requires not only knowledge but also vocation,” said Minister Czaputowicz addressing the newly appointed diplomats. “I would like you to develop your passion by working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to do it with a sense of pride in representing Poland,” he emphasised.

The ceremony was accompanied by the launch of a new edition of diplomatic and consular training. Recruited in five stages, the ten new trainees include university graduates in law, international relations, philology, and applied linguistics. The year-long training provides candidates with skills needed for the duties of a member of diplomatic and consular staff, comprising theory, placements at Ministry departments, and internships at missions abroad. After that, trainees take a diplomatic and consular exam and successful candidates are awarded their first rank in the foreign service.

The opening lecture of today’s ceremony, “Diplomacy in a post-liberal world,” was delivered by Ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky, Director of Ukraine’s Diplomatic Academy.

The ceremony was also attended by Chief of the President’s Cabinet Krzysztof Szczerski, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz, Head of the Civil Service Dobrosław Dowiat-Urbański, and Andrii Deshchytsia, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland.

 

MFA Press Office

Photo Gabriel Piętka / MFA

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