Signed on 3 March 1921 by Ministers of Foreign Affairs Eustachy Sapieha and Take Ionescu on behalf of Marshall Józef Piłsudski and King Ferdinand I, the treaty stipulated that if one country were attacked, the other would consider itself in a state of war and would provide military assistance. Originally, the alliance meant an attack from the east but this commitment was extended in 1927 to attacks from any direction.

Together with the guarantee treaties signed in 1926 and 1931, the Convention formed the basis of the military alliance that bound Poland and Romania in the interwar period. It was based on a shared perception of challenges and threats to the post-Versailles international order. At the same time, the Alliance contributed to the further strengthening of the historical ties of friendship between the two nations and to the enhancing of bilateral political, economic and cultural cooperation.

Today, Poland and Romania are bound by a strategic partnership as well as active membership of the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance. During his visit to Bucharest on 22 and 23 April, Minister Zbigniew Rau will take part in the official opening of the exhibition “The Allies. Poland-Romania. 1918-1939” in the building of the Romanian Parliament. The exhibition was prepared by the Central Military Library in Warsaw on the basis of materials from the Polish military archives.

 

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