Poland in the OECD

On 4 April 1949, in Washington, D.C., twelve Western European countries together with the United States and Canada signed the North Atlantic Treaty to set up a new system of global security.

On 12 March 1999, a free and democratic Poland joined the North Atlantic Alliance. On that date, NATO opened its ranks to three former Warsaw Pact members: Poland, Czechia, and Hungary.

Today's meeting of Polish, French, and German Foreign Ministers Radosław Sikorski, Stéphane Séjourné, and Annalena Baerbock in Paris shows that cooperation in this format is of key strategic importance for Poland, as it comes to both bilateral and trilateral relations, and broader European and transatlantic dimensions.

On 15 January, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of directors of eastern departments and coordinators for sanctions of the G7+ countries.

As endorsed by the Foreign Ministries of Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States on 20 December 2023, the Tallinn Mechanism officially formalized.

10 December marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly. The document has lost none of its relevance and many of the rights defined therein must still be protected in different parts of the world.

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage granted Poland’s request to enter the polonaise on the UNECO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The decision was made on 5 December, during the Committee’s 18th session held in Kasane, Botswana.

Poland has been elected to the OPCW Executive Council for the term 2024-2026.

On 9 November, the head of Polish diplomacy took part in a conference summoned on the initiative of President Macron and focusing on the humanitarian aid and current situation in the Gaza Strip.