Held from 20 to 24 January, this year’s World Economic Forum hosted some 3,000 attendees, over 1,400 organisations, and about 900 speakers, including heads of states or governments, ministers, CEOs of global enterprises, and representatives of think tanks and the academia. The theme of the Forum was “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age”.

Today, the annual Conference of the Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern Partnership (CORLEAP) was held in Rzeszów. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was represented by Undersecretary of State Anna Radwan-Röhrenschef. The conference was devoted to the future of the Eastern Partnership, a project co-initiated by Minister Radosław Sikorski.

On 21 January, MFA Secretary of State Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski attended a Brussels-based Holocaust Remembrance Conference “Remembering the past. Shaping the future”, marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

We continue to encourage Poles living abroad to return to Poland and support the country with their competence. As a reminder, unless they have renounced their Polish citizenship, all Poles are entitled to a Polish passport, and to repatriate themselves and settle freely in Poland.

Today, Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski has officially opened new premises of the Polish diplomatic mission in Germany’s capital. The Embassy is now located in a prime site of Berlin, at no more than 300 metres from the Brandenburg Gate.

Secretary of State Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski met with Abdulaziz Kamilov, Special Representative of the President of Uzbekistan for Foreign Affairs and former long-serving head of Uzbekistani diplomacy.

In 2025, Poland holds a one-year presidency of the Community of Democracies, a global intergovernmental coalition of countries whose main goal is to promote democratic principles and standards worldwide.

On 15 January 2025, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Henryka Mościcka-Dendys attended a meeting of the Advisory Legal Committee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The committee members continued their discussion on proposals for amendments to the International Agreements Act of 14 April 2000.

During the official visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to the Office of the Prime Minister, a ceremony was held today to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. The document was signed by MFA Secretary of State Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski and, on the Vietnamese side, by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Hang.

On 15 January 2025, MFA Undersecretary of State Jakub Wiśniewski received the Ambassador of the United States to Poland, Mark Brzeziński, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The meeting focused on new US legislation devised to control the export of advanced chips.