Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk attended the foreign ministers meeting of the Visegrad Group and the Western Balkan States 2019 in Bratislava.

“All six countries seeking OECD membership are eligible to open accession negotiations, which is something Poland has repeatedly endorsed,” said the deputy chief of Polish diplomacy during the Ministerial Council Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz will attend the UN General Assembly in New York on 28 May. The session’s agenda contains a resolution to establish 22 August an International Day to commemorate victims of religious or denomination-motivated violence. The resolution is a Polish initiative.

“Today’s consultations confirmed the excellent state of our bilateral relations and cooperation in international fora. Estonia is one of Poland’s closest partners in both NATO and European Union and regional organisations,” said Minister Jacek Czaputowicz after a meeting in Warsaw with chief of Estonian diplomacy Urmas Reinsalu.

“When speaking about the EU’s reform, we need to focus on the things that help increase security and prosperity of the citizens and that boost EU leverage in the world in line with European values and standards,” stressed the Polish foreign minister at the Europaforum in Berlin.

“The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties is fundamental to the functioning of a state in the sphere of international law,” said Deputy Minister Piotr Wawrzyk in Warsaw at a conference organised by the MFA’s Legal and Treaty Department titled “50 years of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in the context of the Polish treaty practice.”

Deputy Foreign Minister Maciej Lang welcomed the delegation of the Defense and Security Committee of the Czech Chamber of Deputies at the MFA headquarters.

“Poland supports the changes taking place in Armenia and stands ready to support Yerevan in its efforts to carry out wide-ranging modernisation reforms,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz during today’s talks with deputy chief of Armenian diplomacy Avet Adonts.

A meeting with the chief of German diplomacy, participation in a renowned European Forum organised by the WDR television station and a visit to the Topography of Terror Documentation Centre will be the highlights of Minister Czaputowicz’s visit to the German capital on 23 May.

An independent election panel composed of four UN organisations, including the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), picked Katowice to host the 11th World Urban Forum (WUF) in 2022.