Poland in the OECD

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has launched a contest for the best foreign-language publication promoting Poland’s history and the best Polish-language publication on the history of Polish diplomacy released in 2022. Authors are invited to submit their books by 1 June 2023.

The nineteenth of February will mark the 550th birth anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus – an outstanding Polish astronomer, mathematician, economist, lawyer, doctor, astrologer and translator who formulated the heliocentric theory and authored “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”.

Held at the US initiative, the meeting centred on supporting the energy sector in Ukraine.

Statement by the Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Poland, and North Macedonia representing the previous, current and incoming Chairmanships of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (the OSCE Troika).

16 November marks Foreign Service Day. So important to Polish diplomats and staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the holiday falls on the anniversary of the telegram sent on 16 November 1918 by Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces Józef Piłsudski. In it, he notified the international community of the rebirth of an independent Polish state after 123 years of foreign rule.

On 6 October 2022, Minister Zbigniew Rau opened the 10th edition of the Warsaw Dialogue for Democracy, devoted to the defence of democratic values against authoritarianism in the context of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

On 26 September 2022 - 7 October 2022, the Polish 2022 OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, with the support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) organize Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.

22nd of August is the fourth International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, established by the UN General Assembly on Poland’s initiative.

On 14 July, in The Hague, Minister Rau took part in a ministerial conference on coordinating international efforts to hold the Russian Federation accountable for its atrocities in Ukraine (“Accountability for Ukraine – Enhancing coordination of action to deliver justice”).

The main themes of this year’s Conference of Ambassadors of the Republic of Poland were the unprecedented and multi-dimensional challenges resulting from Russia’s attack against Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, consequences for the international order, and conclusions that Polish diplomacy must draw from these crises.