On Monday, 10 October 2022, in Alfred Biedermann’s Palace at the University of Łódź, Minister Zbigniew Rau presented prizes and honourable mentions in the 4th and 5th editions of the Foreign Minister’s History Competition. The awards went to research and popular research works as well as source publications that came out in 2019 and 2020.

On October 8-9, 2022 Paweł Jabłoński, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland visited Iran. He took part in the Polish-Iranian political consultations, which take place regularly (with the exception of the COVID-19 pandemic) at the level of deputy foreign ministers. The last edition of the consultations took place in 2019.

The OSCE’s Warsaw Human Dimension Conference ended on 7 October 2022. The 10-day event brought together over a thousand attendees representing international organisations, governments, and civil society from the whole OSCE area, who came together to analyse the implementation of the OSCE Human Dimension commitments.

On 7 October 2022, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted to adopt a resolution on the human rights situation in the Russian Federation.

On 6 October 2022, Minister Zbigniew Rau opened the 10th edition of the Warsaw Dialogue for Democracy, devoted to the defence of democratic values against authoritarianism in the context of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

On Wednesday, 5 October 2022, the head of Greek diplomacy visited Poland. “Polish-Greek bilateral relations are friendly and have been developing harmoniously. There are no contentious issues in our relations. Also of importance is the fact that they are based on mutual friendship between our nations,” stated Minister Rau after talks with his Greek counterpart.

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany, Zbigniew Rau and Annalena Baerbock, met in Warsaw on 4 October.

On Wednesday, 5 October, Minister Zbigniew Rau will meet with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Nikos Dendias.

On Wednesday, 5 October, Minister Zbigniew Rau will meet with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Nikos Dendias.

On 3 October 2022, Poland was re-elected as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council for 2023–2026. The election was held at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, launched on 26 September. Poland has taken part in the work of the ITU Council since 2010.