Today, at the Polish MFA, Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski hosted a meeting with Umar Hadi, Director General for American and European Affairs at Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Discussed were the current bilateral relations, including political, economic, and cultural cooperation, as well as threats to peace and security in Europe and the Middle East.

Today, at the MFA headquarters, Deputy Ministers Jakub Wiśniewski and Marek Krawczyk, undersecretary of state in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and deputy chair of the Public Benefit Committee, signed an Agreement on cooperation in the organisation of the competition for the Polish Youth Delegate 2025/2026 to the 80th UN General Assembly session. The competition will be announced on the Public Benefit Committee website before 1 October 2024.

Deputy Minister Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski visited Japan on 6–9 August 2024. The minister met with the Japanese government’s representatives: Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoichi Fukazawa, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hideki Murai, in charge of Ukraine’s reconstruction, and board members of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The agenda included future development of the Poland–Japan strategic partnership, established in 2015, Polish–Japanese cooperation in regard to rebuilding Ukraine, and the global political and security situation.

The talks between Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Jakub Wiśniewski and State Secretary for Development Policy Lotte Machon of the Kingdom of Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs centred on the priorities of the Polish and Danish presidencies with respect to development cooperation and humanitarian aid. Poland and Denmark will consecutively hold Council of the EU presidencies in 2025.

Secretary of State Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski met Sun Linjiang, the PRC’s Ambassador to Poland, on 1 August.

On 24 July, the first interministerial Poland–U.S. consultations were held after Poland joined the coalition of states for preventing the illegal use of commercial spyware.

Secretary of State at the Polish MFA Andrzej Szejna took part in political consultations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa. The Polish delegation was headed by Deputy Minister Szejna and included representatives of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, and business circles.

After a five-year break, the Ministry of Foreign Affaires resumes the Jerzy Giedroyć Competition for the best research papers on Polish-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Polish relations. The initiative is being implemented by the Polish Institute in Kyiv in cooperation with the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw, and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv.

A committee chaired by Poland’s former president Lech Wałęsa has decided to award this year’s relaunched Lech Wałęsa Solidarity Prize to Pavel Latushka, a Belarusian opposition activist and deputy head of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus.

During the last session of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on 22 July in Brussels, Poland presented a document highlighting the importance of strategic communication in transatlantic relations.