Piotr Wilczek, Polish Ambassador to the USA, won this year’s edition of the Amicus Oeconomiae award. It is granted to Polish diplomats for outstanding contribution to promoting the Polish economy and supporting Polish entrepreneurs abroad. Also honoured were Polish Ambassador in Beijing Wojciech Zajączkowski and Consul General in Cologne Jakub Wawrzyniak. The award, in the form of a commemorative statuette, was presented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. Zbigniew Rau during today’s ceremony which was an opportunity to sum up the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the area of economic diplomacy. The meeting was also attended by Andrzej Gut-Mostowy, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Development, Labour and Technology, and Grażyna Ciurzyńska, acting President of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency.

On this day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the fundamental document to set international standards of human rights protection.

On 8 December 2020, Poland’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz and his Kazakh counterpart Margulan Baimukhan held political consultations that confirmed the good state of relations between the two countries.

- Poland contributes to the stabilisation of the Mediterranean Basin. Our soldiers and experts take part in the Irini operation. We are also present in the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, - said the Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz during the “Rome MED – Mediterranean Dialogues” videoconference held on 4 December 2020.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Polish Television (TVP) will work together to seek new methods and opportunities for promoting Polish culture and the country’s image abroad. According to a letter of intent signed in Warsaw on Thursday, 3 December, by Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk and Mateusz Matyszkowicz, a member of the TVP management board, the two institutions will take joint action to improve the positive image of Poles and Poland in foreign countries.

On 2 December 2020, a video conference of deputy foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group (V4) and Spain was held as part of the Polish Presidency of the Visegrad Group.

“The OSCE must work out solutions for the dynamically changing security situation in its area,” said Minister Zbigniew Rau in his address during the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting, which this year was held via video conference.

- We are pleased with the good state of our bilateral relations and we still see a potential for developing them - said Deputy Minister Paweł Jabłoński during today’s Polish-Palestinian political consultations, held as a video conference.

On 1-2 December 2020, Minister Zbigniew Rau took part in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, held in the form of a video conference.

“Multilateral cooperation aimed at a recovery from the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic should be the guiding principle of the exit strategies,” said Minister Zbigniew Rau in his address at the 23rd EU-ASEAN ministerial meeting, which was held as videoconference on 1 December 2020.