On 9 March, Minister Zbigniew Rau held a phone conversation with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi.

Today’s talks of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Poland Mira Sun focused on economic cooperation between Poland and the Republic of Korea, including in particular energy and infrastructure investment projects.

Bilateral cooperation, transatlantic relations, Eastern and security policy, and the pandemic-related challenges were the main topics of Polish-Norwegian consultations held in the form of a videoconference.

The telephone call with the new US secretary of state reaffirmed the willingness to continue strengthening the Polish-US partnership. Minister Rau and Secretary Blinken discussed priority cooperation areas and assessed the international situation.

The chief of Polish diplomacy took part in a ministerial panel discussion on the human rights situation in the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, on the sidelines of the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

The EU’s policy towards Russia, developments in Hong Kong, and a discussion with the US secretary of state were the major points of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) held in Brussels on Monday. The ministers also took a political decision to impose sanctions in response to the persecution of Alexei Navalny.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Visegrad Group (V4), a summit of the V4 prime ministers was held in Kraków on 17 February with Charles Michel, President of the European Council, in attendance.

“What binds us together is not only our geographical contiguity. We not only have a common history or a common understanding of the words “freedom” and “solidarity”, but we also face similar socio-economic challenges,” said Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Government Plenipotentiary for the Polish Presidency of the Visegrad Group and the Celebrations of the 30th Anniversary of Visegrad Cooperation Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk during today’s media briefing at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

Thirty years ago, on 15 February 1991, the presidents of Poland and the Czechoslovakia, and the prime minister of Hungary signed the Declaration on Cooperation between the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Hungary in Striving for European Integration in the castle of Visegrad, Hungary.