The Republic of Poland Ambassador to Estonia is the official representative of the

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and the

Government of Poland The Government of Poland takes the form of a Unitary state, unitary Parliamentary republic, parliamentary Representative democracy, representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Poland, President is the head of state and the Prime ...

to the

and the

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. The ambassador and his staff work in the Polish embassy in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

. The current Poland ambassador to Estonia is Grzegorz Kozłowski, incumbent since February 14, 2018.

History

Poland established diplomatic relations with Estonia on May 4, 1921, when representative of the Republic of Estonia delivered letter of credence to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On September 30, 1939, diplomatic relations between Poland and Estonia were dissolved because of the Soviet-German

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, which expropriated among others Poland and Estonia. Between 1939 and 1991 there was no official relations between

Polish People's Republic The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ...

led by communists and

Estonian SSR The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an ethnically based adminis ...

, which was a part of the

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. However, there were bilateral relations between

Polish government-in-exile The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile ( pl, Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie), was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Pola ...

and Estonian government-in-exile. In 1989 Poland extricated from the

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, in turn in 1991 Estonia gained independence. On September 2, 1991, diplomatic relations between countries were officially restored. In 1993 Poland opened embassy in Tallinn.

List of ambassadors of Poland to Estonia

Second Polish Republic

* 1920-1921: Leon Wasilewski (''envoy'') * 1921-1922: Michał Sokolnicki (''envoy'') * 1922-1924: Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński (''envoy'') * 1924-1928: Franciszek Charwat (''envoy'') * 1928-1929: Józef Wołodkowicz (''chargé d’affaires'') * 1929-1929:

Kazimierz Papée Dr. Kazimierz Papée (sometimes Anglicized Casimir, January 10, 1889 - January 19, 1979) was the ambassador from Poland to the Holy See from 1939 to 1958, during and after World War II. Due to the Invasion of Poland (1939), Nazi invasion of Poland ...

(''chargé d’affaires'') * 1929-1933: Konrad Libicki (''envoy'') * 1933-1934: Jan Starzewski (''chargé d’affaires'') * 1934-1939: Wacław Przesmycki (''envoy'')

Third Polish Republic

* 1991-1992:

Jarosław Lindenberg Jarosław Lindenberg (born 9 November 1956 in Warsaw) is a Polish diplomat and philosopher, ambassador to Latvia (1992–1997), Bulgaria (1998–2003), Montenegro (2007–2011), and Bosnia and Herzegdovina (since 2018). Life Lindenberg graduat ...

(''chargé d’affaires'') * 1992-1993: Jan Kostrzak (''chargé d’affaires'') * 1993-1994:

* 1994-2001: Jakub Wołąsiewicz * 2001-2005: Wojciech z Wróblewski * 2005-2010: Tomasz Chłoń * 2010-2014: Grzegorz Marek Poznański * 2014-2018: Robert Filipczak * 2018-2023: Grzegorz Kozłowski

References

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History

List of ambassadors of Poland to Estonia

Second Polish Republic

Third Polish Republic

See also

References