On 11 December 2021, at a meeting of the Lublin Triangle (L3) coordinators in Lutsk, the deputy foreign ministers discussed the current security issues in the region, paying special attention to the threat posed by the Russian Federation to Ukraine’s security as well as to the hybrid attack orchestrated by Lukashenko against Poland’s eastern border. The diplomats were unanimous in condemning the Russian Federation’s attempts to escalate regional crises in the security dimension. “The Lublin Triangle serves its fundamental purpose as a forum of day-to-day cooperation and coordination of positions on issues that are of key importance for the initiative’s three member states.

Poland sent 138,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Laos. The donation is an expression of our solidarity and will to support the local healthcare system. In recent months, the pandemic situation in Laos has deteriorated sharply; at present, the country reports the highest numbers of infections since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new chief of German diplomacy arrived in Warsaw on a one-day visit. Minister Rau congratulated his German counterpart on assuming the office of foreign minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, and expressed his appreciation for it having been her third, following Paris and Brussels, foreign visit since taking on this post.

“In recent months, the cooperation between Warsaw and Riga has significantly tightened as a result of the need to jointly address the Belarusian authorities’ hybrid attack against our borders,” stressed Minister Zbigniew Rau after talks with his Latvian counterpart, Edgars Rinkēvičs.

On the eve of a V4+Morocco foreign ministerial, Minister Zbigniew Rau met in Budapest with his Moroccan counterpart, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.

On the second day of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm, the head of Polish diplomacy Zbigniew Rau met with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov.

On the second day of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau met with Helga Schmid, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

On 3 December, in the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm, Poland’s Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau met with President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Margareta Cederfelt.

On the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council, Minister Zbigniew Rau met with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which since 1992 has sought to work out a peaceful and negotiated solution to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.