On 6-8 October Minister Jacek Czaputowicz will visit the Republic of Korea in connection with the inauguration of the cybersecurity working group meeting. The group operates within the framework of the so-called Warsaw Process that was launched in Warsaw in February 2019 during a conference on building peace and security in the Middle East.

“The aim of our foreign policy is to create a safe and friendly architecture around Poland that enables us to implement our political and economic goals, enhance Poland’s standing, and to promote our culture,” Deputy Minister Przydacz said during another in a series of debates held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Regional Centres for International Debate.

“We oppose all forms of curbing freedom of religion or belief, and we strongly condemn all acts of violence and discrimination based on religion or belief,” said Minister Jacek Czaputowicz in his opening address to this year’s Warsaw Dialogue for Democracy.

On 2 October, Deputy Minister Marcin Przydacz held political consultations with State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office Andreas Michaelis and Christina Beinhoff, deputy advisor for foreign affairs to the German chancellor.

On behalf of the Polish President, Minister Jacek Czaputowicz has presented Paweł Milewski with his nomination as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan today.

The agenda of the Undersecretary of State’s visit to Lebanon included conference of the European Investment Bank, bilateral talks, launching a Polish-German project to rebuild schools and monitoring humanitarian and development projects financed by Polish Aid.

“Public diplomacy is the diplomacy of the future. Each of us should be Poland’s ambassador using the available media, including social media,” Deputy Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk said during a debate titled ‘Modern promotion of Poland’

“Poland wants the European project to succeed. Therefore, we underline the need to develop single market as the source of prosperity, support the enlargement policy and neighbourhood policy to enable the EU to impact its surroundings, and we insist on taking the EU budget seriously,” noted Deputy Minister Konrad Szymański during the European Forum for New Ideas in Sopot.

On Wednesday, Minister Czaputowicz joined President Andrzej Duda at a meeting with UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The purpose of the preliminary requests filed by two Polish judges was to challenge the compliance of Polish disciplinary proceedings applied to the judges with the EU law. The Court of Justice Advocate-General recognized today that the requests should be considered inadmissible by the CJEU.