Poland in the OECD

“This extraordinary time calls for extraordinary attitude and actions. Today, more than ever, we need to stay united and help each other,” Deputy Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk said while thanking the Polish community in the world for their commitment to the Polonia4Neighbours project.

On 10 April 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. On that very day the members of the official delegation were to participate in the ceremonies taking place in the Katyn War Cemetery, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crime committed there. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of the highest state authorities, representatives of various social circles and religious denominations, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All the flight passengers died in the air disaster which took place during landing at the airport near Smolensk.

Due to the state of epidemic, we advise against all travel. However, if you are planning to travel to Poland for important reasons, we would like to remind you that due to COVID-19, controls at the border with Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania have been temporarily reintroduced. Polish borders can be crossed only at designated points, and the increased traffic has led to longer waiting time at the border. When planning your journey, we urge you to choose less frequented border crossing points, if possible.

“We welcome the Polish-French relations and we stand ready to further deepen the dialogue we have entered into today,” stressed Minister Jacek Czaputowicz during the meeting with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian.

The Berlin conference on resolving the conflict in Libya, climate diplomacy, cooperation aimed at supporting the Sahel states and developments in the Middle East were major points on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 20 January 2020 in Brussels.

During the Bratislava Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the participating states entrusted Poland with the Organisation’s Chairmanship in 2022.