UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage granted Poland’s request to enter the polonaise on the UNECO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The decision was made on 5 December, during the Committee’s 18th session held in Kasane, Botswana.

Held on 5 December at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ceremony provided an opportunity to take stock of this year’s economic diplomacy activities.

In view of the resolution to amend the Treaties, adopted on 22 November 2023, and an institutional reform proposed by the European Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk held on 28 November–1 December 2023 a number of bilateral consultations with his European counterparts and other partners from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Denmark.

“Belarusian society has every right to live in a free, democratic, and law-abiding country that can independently decide on the direction of its social and economic development. Poland has consistently supported, and will continue to support, the Belarusian people’s aspirations to reach this goal,” Head of the Foreign Service Piotr Rychlik said in his address during a ceremony to inaugurate Diplomatic Studies at the Centre for East European Studies. The venue for the event was the Columned Hall at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of History.

Poland has been elected to the OPCW Executive Council for the term 2024-2026.

On 29 November, Undersecretary of State Wojciech Gerwel took part in a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council (NUC) at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

In view of reports of large-scale revisions and detentions that took place over the last days in Belarus, the Polish MFA once again strongly condemns any form of repression used by the Minsk authorities against its own society.

On 28 November, head of Polish diplomacy Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk visited Brussels to take part in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers held on 28-29 November.

During today’s swearing-in ceremony of the government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the Presidential Palace, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, who up to now served as Minister for the European Union, has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.