WARSAW

Poland on Tuesday called an urgent meeting of the Council of the Baltic Sea States to discuss European security and the war in Ukraine, a move just a day after no Polish representative was present at high-level security consultations in London.

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced the gathering on US social media company X on Tuesday, posting photos from a remote teleconference with his counterparts from across the Baltic region. “I have called an urgent meeting today of the foreign ministers of the Council of the Baltic Sea States,” he wrote. “The obvious topic: European security and the war in Ukraine.”

Participants included foreign ministers from Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany, as well as a representative of the European Commission. The group, founded in 1992, serves as a forum for intergovernmental cooperation among Baltic Sea states and has taken on a more prominent role since the start of the Ukraine war.

Under Poland’s current presidency, the council has increasingly focused on regional security, hybrid threats, and the protection of critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea basin.

Tuesday’s urgent meeting came a day after Polish media highlighted the absence of any senior Polish official at security talks in London, where Western allies discussed long-term support for Ukraine and broader European defense coordination. Government sources have not commented publicly on why Poland did not send a representative, but the timing of Sikorski’s announcement suggests Warsaw may be seeking to signal its engagement through regional channels.

The foreign minister’s decision to leverage the group underscores Poland’s desire to remain visible in European security deliberations at a moment when diplomatic formats are proliferating and alliances are shifting rapidly.

A clearer picture of Poland’s broader diplomatic stance may emerge as the government outlines its regional and transatlantic priorities in the coming days.