The Bene Merito honorary distinction ( pl, Odznaka Honorowa „Bene Merito”) is a departmental (ministerial) decoration of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

. The

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (''Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych'', MSZ) is the Polish government department tasked with maintaining Poland's international relations and coordinating its participation in international and regional supra-natio ...

awards the citizens of Poland and foreign nationals with this decoration "in recognition of their merits in promoting Poland abroad.""''The Diplomatic Protocol partakes in the procedure of granting state awards of the Republic of Poland ... and in the procedure of granting the honourable distinction “Bene merito” by the minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Poland.''" In was established in 2009 by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs

Radosław Sikorski Radosław Tomasz "Radek" Sikorski (; born 23 February 1963) is a Polish politician and journalist who is a Member of the European Parliament. He was Marshal of the Sejm from 2014 to 2015 and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Donald Tusk's cabinet b ...

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{{reflist Departmental decorations of Poland