During an annual session of the General Conference in Vienna, representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Member States elected Poland to the Board of Governors for 2020-2022.

Polish and Czech deputy ministers responsible for economic diplomacy held bilateral consultations in Prague on 23-24 September. The key issues under discussion included enhanced bilateral economic cooperation, development of economic diplomacy activities, priorities of the Polish presidency of the Visegrad Group, implementation of infrastructure projects in Central Europe, and the future of the Three Seas Initiative. The Polish MFA was represented by Undersecretary of State Paweł Jabłoński.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs passed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact, to the Polish Central Archives of Modern Records. The document had been stored in the MFA Archives before it was officially handed over by MFA Undersecretary of State Piotr Wawrzyk on 23 September 2020.

- The European Union needs to work out a long-term strategy to support Belarus that goes beyond simple responding to current events, - said Minister Zbigniew Rau in today’s Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting in Brussels. The main topics of the talks were the developments in Belarus, Libya and the EU’s southern neighbours, as well as EU’s cooperation with the African Union.

The exhibition promoting achievements of Poles in other countries has been complemented by six new biographies of Polish Olympic champions and outstanding figures connected with the world of sport who lived abroad. These are: Halina Konopacka, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Michał Spisak, Leon Jucewicz and Jerzy Skolimowski.

Proposals for the new format’s further work agenda and key current political issues in Eastern Europe, with particular focus on the situation in Belarus, were the main topics of talks between Deputy Minister Marcin Przydacz and deputy heads of diplomacy of Lithuania and Ukraine.

Developments in Belarus, regional and transatlantic security, economic, infrastructure- and energy-related cooperation, joint actions within the EU framework as well as Polish-Lithuanian cultural and historical heritage and national minorities dominated the agenda of the first Polish-Lithuanian intergovernmental consultations held in Vilnius on 16-17 September.

“The pandemic has not overshadowed other global crises. On the contrary, it has made them even more visible. The pandemic, together with the deteriorating humanitarian situation in countries like Yemen, Syria or Lebanon, puts the international community to an unprecedented test,” Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński emphasized at a press briefing in the gardens of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland does not recognise the results of the illegal 'local elections', organised by the authorities of the Russian Federation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine on 13 September 2020. The election of the governor of Sevastopol was illegal, as well as voting for representatives to the so-called State Council of the 'Crimean Republic', the so-called Legislative Assembly of the city of Symferopol and the so-called Rural Council of the Razdolno region.

Below we publish the statement of the V4 Prime Ministers on Alexey Navalny: