“The Russian-Ukrainian conflict will be one the main themes of the Polish chairmanship of the OSCE in 2022,” said Minister Zbigniew Rau during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporary Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov.

“Despite the pandemic, the Lublin Triangle supports the development of our partnership cooperation. Within the framework of this trilateral formula we can discuss security of our region and other key issues in our trilateral relations,” said Minister Zbigniew Rau during talks with Lithuanian and Ukrainian heads of diplomacy.

Today’s videoconference organised by the Polish Chamber of Commerce, one of the series “Polish Chamber of Commerce’s DIPLOMEETING: on the way to re-open foreign markets”, was devoted to the exchange of information on prospective directions of economic expansion and possible export facilitation. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was represented by Deputy Minister Paweł Jabłoński. The meeting was also attended by: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Technology Jarosław Gowin, and President of the Polish Development Fund S.A. Paweł Borys.

“Our meeting proves that the dialogue between Poland and Hungary is very intensive,” stressed the chief of Polish diplomacy during his talks with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó. The ministers focused on the development of bilateral cooperation and the exchange of experience on vaccination against COVID-19.

Another in a series of Poland-initiated webinars on the developments in Belarus brought together nearly 700 participants and viewers. The event was launched by Foreign Ministers of Poland - Zbigniew Rau, France - Jean-Yves Le Drian, Lithuania - Gabrielius Landsbergis, and Romania - Bogdan Aurescu, as well as Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

"Poland received with concern the media reports on the massacre that was supposed to take place at the end of last year in front of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Aksum in the Ethiopian province of Tigray" Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński emphasized during a virtual meeting with the ambassador designate of Ethiopia to Poland, Mulu Solomon.

Climate and energy diplomacy, a discussion with the foreign minister of Japan on the situation in Asia, and EU-UK cooperation in foreign and security policy were on the agenda of the FAC meeting in Brussels on Monday.