Poland in NATO

On January 27, a ceremony was held at NATO Headquarters on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, co-organized by the Permanent Representations of Poland, Italy and Bulgaria to NATO. The event's partner was the World Jewish Congress.

On behalf of Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, who is the OSCE current Chairperson-in-Office, Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak held a joint phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell.

On 7 January 2022, Minister Zbigniew Rau took part in a video conference of NATO foreign ministers, which focused on the security situation in Ukraine caused by Russia’s actions.

Today, Poland has started its one-year Chairmanship at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Thus, our country is assuming a greater role in shaping security and stabilisation on the European continent in the spirit of the Helsinki Final Act, whose 50th anniversary we will be celebrating in 2025.

Poland, together with Great Britain and Portugal, organized a seminar on deterrence and defense - the first in a series of thematic consultations as part of work on the next Strategic Concept of the Alliance.

On 30 November and 1 December, Minister Zbigniew Rau took part in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, which was held in Riga. The talks focused on current challenges to the security of the Alliance and the Euro-Atlantic area posed by the activity of Russian forces at the border with Ukraine, and the crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border.

103 years ago, on 11 November 1918, when the war operations in Western Europe were declining, Józef Piłsudski, who had come to Warsaw from Magdeburg, seized power to become provisional chief of state.

NATO Allies supported the need for joint action to resolve the migration crisis on the eastern flank of the Alliance. The deputy chief of Polish diplomacy also met with NATO Deputy Secretary General, Mircea Geoană.

The Polish Team, who has been participating in the NATO Chess Championships since 2002, was joined on the podium by Team Greece (2nd place) and Team Germany (3rd place).

The 1980 Gdańsk Agreement marked a milestone in Poland’s history: it gave workers the right to strike and to form unions independent of the Communist Party. And so the ten-million strong trade union “Solidarność” came to be. To mark the 40th anniversary of its birth, the iconic “Solidarność” logo has been placed at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, and a multimedia event “Roads to Freedom” was held in Brussels on 6 October 2021.