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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in Warsaw on 4 September 2026.
The two sides said they were finalising agreements in cyber security, space, clean coal, protection of classified information and critical minerals.
They reviewed the Action Plan of the India-Poland strategic partnership, covering defence, emerging technologies and trade.
India and Poland elevated their relationship to a Strategic Partnership in 2024.
Poland is a Central European state bordering seven countries and a member of both the European Union and NATO.
Poland sits in Central Europe on the Baltic coast, bordered by Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the north-east. Its position on the North European Plain has shaped both its history and its present strategic weight.
GS Paper II > International Relations > India and its bilateral relations with Europe
General Awareness > Bilateral agreements, capitals and currencies
Consider the following statements: I. India has joined the Minerals Security Partnership as a member. II. India is a resource-rich country in all the 30 critical minerals that it has identified. III. The Parliament in 2023 has amended the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 empowering the Central Government to exclusively auction mining lease... for certain critical minerals. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Answer: I and III only
A formal upgrade in a bilateral relationship, usually adding structured dialogue mechanisms and an action plan across defence, trade and technology.
Techniques such as high-efficiency combustion, gasification and carbon capture that cut emissions from coal use — of shared interest to two coal-dependent economies.
Minerals essential to clean energy, electronics and defence manufacturing whose supply is concentrated in a few countries, making bilateral sourcing pacts strategically valuable.