Polityka państwa polskiego wobec krajów rozwijających się w świetle planu pracy Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych na 1973 r.

Abstract

W artykule wskazuje się na cele i kierunki polskiej polityki zagranicznej względem krajów arabskich i muzułmańskich oraz państw afrykańskich zawarte w planie pracy resortu Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych na 1973 r. W przedmiotowym planie występują dwa regiony oddziaływań – kraje arabskie i Iran oraz państwa afrykańskie. Cały ten obszar podlegał strukturze kompetencyjnej Departamentu V.

Targets and directions of Polish foreign policy towards the Arab, Muslim and African countries which were mentioned in the work plan of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1973 are indicated in the article. There are two districts of influence in the subject plan: Arab countries, Iran and African states. The whole of this area fell within the competence of the Fifth Department. In the course of analysis of the document, there is adduced that Poland wanted to actively participate in political and military, economic and agricultural, social and cultural life of the majority Arab and Muslim countries and selected African states. All of these countries were ranked as a wide conception of developing countries, rising markets or Third World countries. Poland was supporting ideological and national independence movements and afterwards also anti-colonial and anti-racial actions in the mentioned area. What is more, Poland actively participated in economic cooperation, trade exchange, sending scientific and technical personnel and accepting students’ applications for Polish universities. Furthermore, Poland was propagated cultural contacts, sending journalists, literature, science and cultural representatives and artists. All of these decisions were supposed to promote a positive image of Polish country in the Arab, Muslim and African world. Some of the assumptions of Polish foreign policy towards above region (no fundamental results when it comes to oil acquisition from the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf) couldn’t be implemented because of the Yom Kippur War and the 1973 Oil Crisis. Countries from the Mashriq region – Egypt and Libya, the Maghreb region Tunis, Algerien and Marocco, Near East – Syria and Iraq, and from the African area – Nigeria and Kenya, had fundamental meaning for Poland those days.