EU development cooperation ministers held today an informal discussion in the form of a video conference that focused on the implementation of the EU’s and its member states’ actions against Covid-19 in partner countries within the framework of the Team Europe strategy.

“It is with great pleasure and pride that I take part, as a representative of the Polish government, in the inauguration of the medical mission, commissioned by the WHO and organised by the Polish Centre for International Aid with the support of the Polish Army,” said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński, while seeing off a team of 23 doctors, nurses and paramedics of the Polish Centre for International Aid (PCPM), who are to launch their medical mission in Tajikistan. For the next three weeks, the Polish medics will share their knowledge and experience in the fight against COVID-19.

“Currently, the Coalition’s most important task is further stabilisation of Iraqi and Syrian territories set free from Daesh influence, taking into consideration the new challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Minister Jacek Czaputowicz on a Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh Small Group’s videoconference.

Poland supports its neighbours again in their fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. Today, another humanitarian aid convoy of over 40 trucks sets off to Belarus, carrying in total 300 tonnes of protective equipment and supplies. It is an unprecedented and the largest assistance that Poland has dispatched to the countries affected with the coronavirus pandemic.

“In times of crisis, the concepts of region and regional cooperation gain particular importance. We need this kind of cooperation, for instance, to re-establish international connections which have got interrupted due to the pandemic,” emphasised the chief of Polish diplomacy during talks with his Slovak counterpart in Bratislava.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world as we know it. Rapid mitigation of its effects will be one of key tasks for the European community. Poland will also focus on this challenge during its upcoming presidency of the V4 group,” declared Minister Jacek Czaputowicz during the video conference that brought together the heads of diplomacy of the V4 and Nordic-Baltic Eight. The event was organised within the framework of the Czech presidency of the Visegrad Group.

On 5 June 2020, the chief of Poland’s diplomacy plans to visit Slovakia to meet with his counterpart Ivan Korčok, the Slovak Foreign Minister.

Minister Jacek Czaputowicz held a phone conversation with Israel’s newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabi Ashkenazi.

The prospects for strengthening bilateral cooperation, the current situation in both countries triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as regional and international issues were the topics discussed today by Minister Czaputowicz and his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde.

"Poland develops close cooperation with the Baltic States at this difficult time for Europe and the whole world. This is a test of our solidarity and today's meeting shows that we want to solve any problems together and in the necessary coordination,” ensured the head of Polish diplomacy.