Poland in the OECD

On 1 July 2024, Poland for the seventh time begins its one-year presidency of the Visegrad Group (V4) under the motto “V4: Back to Basics.” It refers to the foundations of Visegrad cooperation such as freedom, human rights, the rule of law, and commitment to the process of European integration and cooperation for security in Europe.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East, instability in the Great Lakes region, and the situation in Georgia were the main points of a Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. The EU ministers also met with their counterparts from the Western Balkans. Poland was represented by its chief diplomat, Radosław Sikorski.

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We are pleased to invite you to a special event hosted by the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Poland to the OECD and the OECD Economics Department.

Today’s meeting, attended by Ministers Radosław Sikorski and Annalena Baerbock, was held in a symbolic place on the borderland between Poland and Germany. Connecting the two countries, the Słubice-Frankfurt bridge served as our gate to Europe for years, while the West itself was a different world for generations of Polish people.

On 4 April 1949, in Washington, D.C., twelve Western European countries together with the United States and Canada signed the North Atlantic Treaty to set up a new system of global security.

On 12 March 1999, a free and democratic Poland joined the North Atlantic Alliance. On that date, NATO opened its ranks to three former Warsaw Pact members: Poland, Czechia, and Hungary.

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.

On 15 January, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of directors of eastern departments and coordinators for sanctions of the G7+ countries.