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31.03.2021Polish general will become the deputy commander of the V Corps- The Forward Command of the V Corps is in Poznań and has already started its activities. I am very glad that, according to the proposal of the American side, Polish general will be appointed to the position of the deputy commander in the Fort Knox, therefore in the command of the V Corps. It will be major general Adam Joks. Our cooperation proves very strong Polish-American relations in the defense domain - said Mariusz Błaszczak, the Minister of National Defense after the meeting with lieutenant general John Kolasheski, the commander of the V US Army Corps.
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31.03.2021Foreign ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group hold a video conference“International community has to enhance its efforts to eradicate terrorist groups, especially Daesh,” said Minister Zbigniew Rau at a virtual meeting of foreign ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group.
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24.03.2021Establishment of the International Accountability Platform for BelarusOn 24 March 2021, the International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB) was set up. Poland is one of the initiators of the IAPB.
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24.03.2021New UN mechanism to ensure accountability for human rights violations in BelarusOn 24 March 2021, the UN Human Rights Council established a new international mechanism aiming to ensure accountability for violations of human rights in Belarus, which occurred in the country in connection with the 2020 presidential election.
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23.03.2021MFA statement on detention of Andżelika Borys by Belarusian police
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16.03.2021Statement on the 7th anniversary of illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of SevastopolSeven years ago, on 16 March 2014, in the presence of Russian occupational forces, illegal “referendum” was held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol and the area was later unlawfully pronounced a part of the Russian Federation.
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15.02.202130th anniversary of the Visegrad cooperationThirty years ago, on 15 February 1991, the presidents of Poland and the Czech Republic, and the prime minister of Hungary signed the Declaration on Cooperation between the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Hungary in Striving for European Integration in the castle of Visegrad, Hungary.
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11.02.2021Poland and the USA will continue to deepen defense cooperationMariusz Błaszczak, the Minister of National Defense and Lloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense confirmed the development of the intense military cooperation. On Thursday, February 11, during a telephone conversation, the head of the Pentagon assured that US defense cooperation with Poland would be maintained at a very high level. Warsaw and Washington will jointly strengthen and develop the deterrence and defense potential of Poland and the entire eastern flank of NATO.
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29.01.2021President Andrzej Duda talked to NATO Secretary GeneralOn Friday, January 29, President Andrzej Duda held a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on the current security challenges and the future of transatlantic relations.
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28.01.2021International Holocaust Remembrance Day at NATO Headquarters"The painful truth about the Holocaust must not die. We should make every effort to educate the next generations about the past so that it doesn’t repeat itself. As we stand here, as NATO Allies, as nations and as humans, we all bear responsibility not to let it happen again. Never again." - said Ambassador Tomasz Szatkowski during a ceremony at NATO Headquarters commemorating the victims of the Holocaust.