“The impressive growth of the LNG market that we have witnessed in recent years is changing the global energy landscape in a fast pace. It is crucial that countries of the Eastern Partnership as well as the EU Member States can benefit from this global revolution,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk during the first meeting of the Eastern Partnership LNG Network.

The situation in Ukraine, Syria, and Venezuela were the key issues discussed by EU foreign ministers at today’s meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.

On Monday, 18 February, the Polish foreign minister will travel to Brussels to attend a Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

“For the past nearly 70 years, the North Atlantic Alliance has safeguarded peace, security and prosperity of its member states on both sides of the Atlantic,” said the chief of Polish diplomacy during the 55th Munich Security Conference.

“I am hopeful that today’s ministerial will start a process, which on account of the place where it is held, will be called the Warsaw Process,” declared Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz at a press conference that summed up the ministerial on the situation in the Middle East co-hosted with the United States.

Minister Jacek Czaputowicz talked with the foreign minister of the UAE during the Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw.

On 15 and 16 February, the chief of Polish diplomacy will take part in the 55th Munich Security Conference. This annual event has been organised since 1962 and represents a unique, prestigious forum of discussion at the top level on current international security issues.

“You are here because all of the Alliance’s member states jointly decided that NATO’s eastern border necessitates your presence, your vigilance, your courage and your professionalism,” stressed the chief of Polish diplomacy in his address to the troops. The meeting was also attended by US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Deputy Defence Minister Marek Łapiński.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs would like to announce that on 11 February 2019, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry sent a note declaring Polish Consul in Norway Sławomir Kowalski to be persona non grata. The consul was given one week to leave Norway.