well now it is my great pleasure to
introduce our next speaker
anja duda is the president of the
republic
of poland he will be speaking in polish
and for those of you
here in the room feel free to use your
headsets there is translation available
on channel 2. it should be automatic
resident duda the floor is yours
excellencies madam president and mr
president
ministers
distinguished guests dear friends
thank you very much it's absolutely
unique opportunity to
to speak just after his holiness pope
francis but
but and i and and please use your
electronic devices because i will
i will speak in my mother tongue in
polish
so presidency distinguished presidents
distinguished guests
please let me express my satisfaction
connected with the fact that due to
objective difficulties
due to the coronavirus pandemic or in
spite of the korean virus pandemic we
can meet here today
in the beautiful british lava one day
after the conclusion of the nato summit
in brussels
in order to discuss the important
problems but also about the future
especially
also in the context of what we have just
heard
from his holiness
all of us hope that the pandemic is
coming to an end
and that right now is the moment
to talk
about the challenges which are awaiting
us
but also to draw conclusions
draw conclusions from what has happened
over the last year or so
things that have affected us why
were we not able to prevent certain
things
we have achieved thanks to a common
effort thanks to solidarity
thanks to cooperation thanks to mutual
better
we understanding think about what we
will be able to prevent in the future
we ourselves all future generations
although i do hope that they will never
be confronted with
such a challenge thank you very much for
inviting me to this
important conference the topic of which
is so
strictly connected with the global
problems the problems of our origin
especially in this particular moment
which i just mentioned
physical participation in this event
would not have been possible
if it was not for the security given to
us by
huge efforts of medical personnel and
months
of sacrifice connected with numerous
restrictions
which i hope
and i'm saying this not only in this
particular speech i'm having now because
this is the question
that we are asking ourselves in our
inofficial conversations
in the so-called bilateral formula
there's a question that also we the
presidents of the states are asking
these were the topics of the
conversations yesterday with the
president of the prime ministers
and these have also been the topics of
the conversations we have had today
can we say that if the number
of cases in my country in poland
has now dropped
which we recorded exactly one year ago
that is between 200 and 400 cases every
day
does that really mean that we can be
happy
and say that this is the effect of the
vaccination or
is it the consequence of the conditions
of the atmospheric conditions that we're
seeing right now the weather conditions
this is the season in which we are now
last year we didn't have
the vaccination yet and we had the same
number of cases
nevertheless
optimistically those two elements have
come together
on the one hand there is the ongoing
vaccination process
in poland
we have already vaccinated almost 25
million doses 25 million doses have been
distributed
which means there is a quite big share
of the population which has received at
least one
shot of the vaccine however all of us
hope this vaccination
will wipe out the coronavirus pandemic
but of course unfortunately the question
remains
whether it's going to be fully efficient
this is the question that
we are still awaiting and of course the
answer to this question is something
that we have to wait
let me draw your attention to the fact
that there are a few phenomena
in the world which would have such a
common
this small pathogen has attacked the
whole world
affecting not only the public health but
inflicting
death and suffering that first and
foremost
it shook the social sense of security
it shook the foundations of the global
economy
no society and no economy
have been able to resist that crisis
in this context i can
underline with full conviction and very
resolutely that the only
successful strategy for the
post-pandemic
recovery of the world including our
region the region of central europe
is the one which foresees what i have
already said at the outset of my speech
global solidarity global understanding
and global cooperation is the
precondition
and its consequences the recovery of
economists is going to be much more
difficult
global economic organism is not fully
recovered
that is why solidarity also in sharing
access to vaccines
is a fundamental importance in the fight
against the coronavirus pandemic
ladies and gentlemen the leaders are
currently facing huge challenges
first of all they have to take care of
the well-being of the societies which
they represent
they have to go above particularistic
interests and find themselves the
readiness to demonstrate solidarity
has to be avoiding of new divisions into
the better
and worse ones into the richer and the
poorer ones
into those vaccinated and those not
vaccinated
this is our common fight which requires
revisiting fundamental values christian
values
which have just been mentioned in a
beautiful way by his holiness
pope francis
we need to think about humanistic roots
which are so important to all of us
the second fundamental challenge we're
facing is acknowledging the paradigm
of unavoidability to confront problems
which
existed also before the outbreak of the
pandemic
and which have not gone away that's
obvious
let us just look at the neighborhood
in the european union russia is
continuing its actions
and it has announced further steps of
the character of
imperial pressure it interferes into
internal affairs of other states
it violates the financial foundations of
international law also vis-a-vis its own
citizens
and increasingly unpredictable actions
of the belarusian regime
we have got the oppression
we have got the uh limitation of any
kind
of civic freedom we have got people in
prisons
since 2018 the destabilized libya
is an arena of war operations and the
target of
hybrid actions the countries in the
south of europe
for many years have been struggling with
the ongoing migration crisis
constitutes a permanent threat
uh the global fighting of the virus
or defeating the virus but let us also
remember about other
illnesses such as authoritarianism
imperialism a violation of international
law and human rights
these are realistic problems which did
exist before the pandemic
distinguished guests
values are a fundamental thing however
let us not forget that while talking
about security we also need to talk
about the costs
security is an investment and in this
very context
economy is of key importance fast
recovery of the economies affected by
the crisis
is very important but what is even more
important is the model
of such recovery the post-pandemic
economic
order has to adopt as its departure
on the one hand coming back to the path
of dynamic growth on the other hand
however
resilience however first and foremost
i would like to express my conviction
that
these two factors have to be correlated
with one another
for i have no doubt whatsoever that the
growth
in other words the improvement of
economic situation
the improvement of the welfare of the
societies by the same token is going to
build
resilience in order to obtain this
resilience in order to equip
our economies with tools which are going
to
amortize the future possible effects on
future economic shocks
we have to revise our so far way of
thinking
about the network of global financial
interdependencies trade and investment
interdependencies
alike the discussion concerning these
problems is in the pipeline and it's
very well known
the conclusion is from our so far
experiences and let me just remind you
that this has been the second global
crisis that has affected us in the last
10 years or so
have been accounted for in the european
recovery instrument next generation eu
as well as international
recovery plans developed by member
states this is important
that in the public debates there is a
thinking
about the need to give an impulse to
stimulate a production within the
european union
the effects of which will also be the
shortening of
supply chains which on the other hand
will generate more security
i wrote about it in a letter which i
addressed to european leaders more than
one year ago
and i'm happy that a lot of
please from that letter today constitute
the content of the european union's plan
developed to recover after the pandemic
i'm also happy
that we express care for future
generations this is expressed among
others by
sustainable approach to climate policy
taking into account elements of social
and development policy
in other words something that we have
called just transition
i have no doubt whatsoever that the
recovery model adopted by poland
based on a broad scale program of
infrastructure
public investments investments in the
private sector profound
energy and digital transformation and
better effectiveness and accessibility
of the public
sector of the public health services
will
generate a new economic architecture and
architecture which will
allow us to develop further
in an unlimited way at the same time my
homeland
will be resilient to the future possible
global shocks
i would like to stress very powerfully
that this is the priority leading my
second term in office as president
which was called
dude in the last year's presidential
campaign and today
it makes part of the polish governmental
program
which is described as a new order
or finally as a polish order
a big enthusiasm is reflected among
others by objective analysis last week
the world bank has revised
the gdp of poland the foreign caste is
now 3.8 this year
and 4.5 in 2022
a similar opinion has been expressed
also by the european commission which in
mid
may increased the assessed dynamics of
growth of poland
up to four percent of gdp in 2021
and up to 5.4 percent in 2022.
this model will also make part of a
broader recovery plan
thanks to which our region is going to
be one of the most robustly developing
ones
the expected growth of gdp in central
europe
is supposed to amount to four point six
percent in the nearest future
all of us that is foreign
the essential question of this debate
namely if there is any
unique extraordinary way for the
countries of our region to
recover post pandemic
i can say with full conviction and full
responsibility
yes i do believe there is such a path
not just for one state of the region for
the states
of the region as a certain community
as an element of a
big community that is of the european
union
this plan i'm referring to this idea
this path
i believe is the three cities initiative
which is the format of regional
cooperation
which is complementary to the european
union integration and
which speaks about tightening strategic
cooperation
across the atlantic we are lucky
that this area we are talking about
central europe is inhabited by nations
who are extraordinarily ambitious
hardworking and creative by nature
nations which have gone through many
experiences nations are not afraid of
challenges
we want to harness this positive energy
which is
permeating the entire 36 region the
initiative is developing
we are equipping it with ever newer
instruments and mechanisms
which define its subsequent
functionalities and give it the veiler
valor of full maturity currently the
most important
tool which supports its aims is the free
sys investment fund
thanks to which we have started to
co-finance
projects on the regional scale however
there are also other tools
ce plus index
3cs region forum combined with
the economic congress as well as the
three seas business forum organized
every year in the marriages of the
subsequent summits
we can see a big interest in cooperation
with the three cities initiative on part
of their external partners
japan greece great britain
not to mention that our strategic
partners
for many years now right from the
inception we can say
have been european institutions the
united states of america
and germany germany
developed country from the
infrastructure point of view not only in
the european union but across
the whole europe one of the absolutely
best
developed countries if not the best
developed country in the world
i profoundly believe in the sense of
this cooperation i consider it the
thrist's initiative
to be the most representative formula of
deeper integration of the countries of
our region within the european union
and as the best way to strengthen the
transatlantic bond
in this context it's worth stressing
that all the three strategic
goals of the initiative the development
of infrastructure energy and
digital infrastructure are inextricably
connect connected with security
strong economically and well integrated
region is able
to tackle in the situation during future
crisis
let us hope we are not confronted with
any future crisis nevertheless we have
to be prepared always and i do believe
that we are going to be prepared thank
you very much for your attention
your views on the hopes and challenges
that