Poland in the OECD

As endorsed by the Foreign Ministries of Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States on 20 December 2023, the Tallinn Mechanism officially formalized.

10 December marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly. The document has lost none of its relevance and many of the rights defined therein must still be protected in different parts of the world.

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage granted Poland’s request to enter the polonaise on the UNECO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The decision was made on 5 December, during the Committee’s 18th session held in Kasane, Botswana.

Poland has been elected to the OPCW Executive Council for the term 2024-2026.

On 9 November, the head of Polish diplomacy took part in a conference summoned on the initiative of President Macron and focusing on the humanitarian aid and current situation in the Gaza Strip.

On 26 October 2023, Undersecretary of State Wojciech Gerwel attended remotely the OECD Southeast Asia Ministerial Forum, which was organised in Hanoi.

On 12 October 2023, on the initiative of Poland as well as an interregional coalition built by our country and consisting of Botswana, Bangladesh, Morocco, South Korea, Panama, Rwanda, and Slovakia, the UNESCO Executive Board decided during the ongoing 217th session to establish the International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

On 2 October 2023, Undersecretary of State at the Polish MFA Wojciech Gerwel attended, on behalf of Minister Zbigniew Rau, an informal session of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Kyiv.