Poland in the Philippines

Since April 1st 2020 national visa applications are accepted to a limited extent until the situation stabilizes.

The following information concerns Poles staying abroad and willing to return home.

Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Richard Albright and Secretary of State at the Brazilian MFA Fabio Marzano chaired a meeting of the Warsaw Process Working Group on Humanitarian Issues and Refugees which was held on 4-6 February in Brasilia.

On 4 February, Minister Jacek Czaputowicz, together with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Ernesto Araújo and US State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard Albright, opened a meeting of the Humanitarian Issues and Refugees Working Group of the Warsaw Process.

The President of Poland on the 75th Anniversary of Liberation of the Nazi German Death Camp KL Auschwitz.

We would like to kindly inform that as of 6th January 2020 the Embassy of Poland in Manila will begin to carry out the consular services excluding the visa cases.

The 20th century brought the world inconceivable suffering and the death of hundreds of millions of people killed in the name of sick, totalitarian ideologies. The death toll of Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious for people of our generation. It is also obvious who is responsible for those crimes – and whose pact started World War II, the most murderous conflict in the history of humankind.

Revitalising the multilateral system and creating multidimensional and sustainable connectivity between Europe and Asia were the main topics discussed at the ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Madrid.

On Friday, 6 December, the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim to mark the 10th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. It was Angela Merkel’s first visit to the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp after her 14 years in office and the third visit of an incumbent head of government.

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.