UN General Assembly
2025

After centuries of conquests, wars, partitions, deportations, rapes, and crimes, in the 20th and 21st century, Russia has simply not abandoned its imperial ambitions. One of my great predecessors, the late President Lech Kaczynski, understood this perfectly well when he spoke in front of the Georgian Parliament in 2008. His words spoken at that time have stood the test of time. President Lech Kaczynski said, ladies and gentlemen, today, Georgia, tomorrow, Ukraine. The day after tomorrow, the Baltic States. And later, perhaps, it will be time for my country, for Poland. When Russia attacked Georgia, it was not clear to everyone that this was only the beginning of the Kremlin's new imperialism. Unfortunately, the wind of history, which we know and understand so well in Poland, is beginning to blow again. Once again, we are experiencing Russian imperialism also on our soil. In Poland, two weeks ago, on the night of September 9th to 10th, the Russian drones attacked the territory of a NATO member state, the territory of Poland.