Between 11 and 15 July, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau will travel to three Western Balkan countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. Minister of Foreign Affairs will also participate in The Hague in the conference on justice against the perpetrators of crimes under international law committed during the Russian aggression.

On 7 July, the deputy head of Polish diplomacy took part in the sixth edition of the Polish-British Belvedere Forum in London. In his address, he emphasised that Warsaw and London have a deep and strategic partnership based on common values and interests. Nearly one million Poles living in the United Kingdom play an important role in these relations.

On 6 July, Minister Zbigniew Rau met with a delegation from India led by Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. A day before, the Indian delegation took part in Commemoration of the Good Maharajas, an event organised by the Indian Embassy as part of India’s 75th anniversary of independence, in the Royal Łazienki Park in Warsaw.

Held for the first time in the history of Polish-Botswanian relations, the political and economic consultations in Gaborone reaffirmed Poland’s role as a key European partner for Botswana with a potential for even closer cooperation.

On 5 July 2022, Poland’s MFA summoned Belarusian chargé d’affaires to lodge a strong protest against the demolition of a Home Army soldiers’ cemetery in Mikulishki.

During the visit to Doha of Major General Piotr Andrzej Błazeusz, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces and Major General Pilot Dariusz Malinowski, Deputy Operational Commander of the Armed Forces, an agreement was signed on 3 July aiming at bolstering the counter-terrorism capabilities of the Qatari security forces.

On 1 July 2022 the graphics exhibition “Profanum” by Irena Lawruszko, an Ukrainian artist, was officially opened at the Diplomats' Gallery located at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be on display until autumn of this year. The exhibition was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the M. Kazana Foundation.

“The world is at one of its decisive moments in its history. More than ever, parliamentarians face uncertainty about the future, and the future will be defined either by our ability to be guided by universal rules founded in our humanity, or by the whims of mighty forces,” said minister Rau. In his capacity as OSCE’s Chairman-in-Office, the head of Polish diplomacy opened a debate during the annual Parliamentary Assembly in Birmingham.

While in Helsinki, Poland’s top diplomat met with President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö, Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto and with Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering Tytti Tuppurainen. The main topics discussed were further development of bilateral cooperation, security, the situation in EU's eastern neighbourhood, Poland’s OSCE chairmanship, and regional policy.