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Minister Radosław Sikorski attends Weimar Triangle foreign ministers' meeting in Paris

12.02.2024

Today's meeting of Polish, French, and German Foreign Ministers Radosław Sikorski, Stéphane Séjourné, and Annalena Baerbock in Paris shows that cooperation in this format is of key strategic importance for Poland, as it comes to both bilateral and trilateral relations, and broader European and transatlantic dimensions.

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The talks in the Château de La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris also confirm that partners from the two largest EU member states are willing to intensify relations with the new Polish government. In this context, the Weimar Triangle is to become a forum for consulting joint trilateral projects and actions to strengthen the entire European Union politically, militarily, and socially.

During the consultations, the ministers expressed their support for Ukraine's aspirations to the EU and NATO membership. Poland’s chief diplomat stressed the country’s determination to provide its eastern neighbour with further broad military and economic assistance. The diplomats gave their approval to the 13th package of sanctions, aimed at individuals and companies involved in Russia's arms industry.  

The Weimar Triangle foreign ministers also discussed the problem of escalating Russian disinformation campaigns intended to sow distrust of democratic institutions and processes in the EU, at the same time expressing their readiness to closely cooperate to counteract the Kremlin's propaganda. 

"They tried hard in the UK before Brexit, they tried hard in the US during several elections, they tried hard in a number of our electoral campaigns. We're going to have a series of election campaigns this year. We must step up vigilance, step up cooperation so that such methods are no longer successful," underlined Poland's top diplomat.

Moreover, as part of the meeting's agenda the ministers also discussed the current situation in the Middle East and the migration challenges on the Mediterranean route.

More photographs of the meeting are available here.

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The last meeting of the Weimar Triangle top diplomats took place in Weimar in 2021. 

The Weimar Triangle itself was set up in Weimar in August 1991 by the then foreign ministers of Poland, France, and Germany Krzysztof Skubiszewski, Roland Dumas, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Its aim was to overcome the divisions in Europe by integrating Poland into European and Euro-Atlantic structures. This objective was achieved when Poland joined NATO and then the EU.

 

Photo: Konrad Laskowski/MFA

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