Poland in the OSCE

The foreign ministers of Poland, France, and Germany met in Łódź on 1 March. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba joined a part of the talks via a videoconference.

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Foreign Minister of Poland, Zbigniew Rau and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid condemned the launch by President Putin of a military operation in Ukraine and made the following statement:

To address Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the Polish OSCE Chairmanship convened a reinforced meeting of the Permanent Council at the ministerial level.

Following the decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as independent, the 2022 Polish Chairmanship-in-Office convened the OSCE Permanent Council yesterday to meet in a reinforced format to address the current situation.

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Foreign Minister of Poland, Zbigniew Rau, OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Margareta Cederfelt (MP, Sweden) and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Secretary General Roberto Montella strongly condemned the decision by Russia to recognize certain areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as independent and made the following statement:

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Foreign Minister of Poland, Zbigniew Rau expressed serious concern about the reported shelling of a kindergarten in the area of Stanytsia Luhanska, in Luhansk region and called for restraint in the following statement.

The head of Polish diplomacy summed up his recent visit to Moscow as OSCE Chairman-in-Office, and the course of his talks with Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.

Foreign Affairs Minister Zbigniew Rau, as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, has today concluded his first official visit to Moscow.

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau will visit Moscow for a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov.