“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.

“A new institutional cycle offers new possibilities to better promote the interests of Poland, Slovakia, and the whole Central Europe under the new Strategic Agenda,” Secretary of State for European Affairs Konrad Szymański said during the fifth round of the Polish-Slovak Discussion Forum on 22 May in Bratislava.

In view of the next legislative cycle, which will begin after the European elections, the European Council at its meeting on 20-21 June will adopt the EU’s new Strategic Agenda 2019-2024. Poland is actively engaged in preparations of this document.

The programme of the visit by Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See includes a meeting with Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz and participation in a conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the reestablishment of relations between the Republic of Poland and the Holy See. It was Archbishop Paul Gallagher’s first visit to Warsaw.

“I am very happy that we can all enjoy happy moments of the Holy Ramadan – when compassion, friendship and solidarity gain special significance,” said Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz during iftar, a formal dinner on the occasion of Ramadan which he hosted for the chiefs of diplomatic missions of Muslim countries accredited to Poland.

Yesterday in Kyiv, Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz took part in the swearing-in ceremony of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“In 2018, Poland spent over EUR 35.7 million on humanitarian aid in the Middle East and we will continue this assistance this year,” assured the chief of Polish diplomacy during his visit at the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees.

“Jordan is our important partner, with whom Poland has very good relations. I am very happy that my visit coincides with the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two countries,” said Minister Jacek Czaputowicz summing up the first day of his visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.