Duda names new foreign policy advisor

Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has appointed Marcin Przydacz as his new international policy advisor after Jakub Kumoch resigned from the post, the President's Office announced on Thursday afternoon.

Przydacz, currently a deputy foreign minister for security and American and eastern policy, will take up his new post on January 13.

From 2015-2019 he was deputy head of the Presidential Foreign Policy Bureau.

Earlier on Thursday, Kumoch said that he was leaving his post and that the president had accepted his resignation.

Kumoch wrote that Duda's visit on Wednesday to the Ukrainian town of Lviv was his last project for the president and added that his decision to end his work for the head of state after 18 months was approved by Duda several months ago.

In Lviv Duda met his Ukrainian and Lithuanian counterparts as part of the trilateral format of neighbourly cooperation known as the Lublin Triangle.

"I have been allowed to say today that the president approved my decision to resign and return to the foreign service during his visit to Malta in October," Kumoch wrote on Twitter.

In a statement posted on its website, the President's Office wrote that Duda has awarded Kumoch with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his diplomatic service and for representing Poland abroad.