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Nigeria–Poland relations are the
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between Nigeria and Poland. Both nations are members of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.


History

Contact between Poland and Nigeria have distant roots in the past. In the 19th century, Polish explorer
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, traversed Nigerian lands on an attempt to create a Polish colony in Cameroon.Official visit of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria
/ref> After World War II, many Poles decided to settle permanently in Nigeria. On 1 October 1960, Nigeria obtained its independence from the United Kingdom. Soon afterwards, Nigeria and Poland established diplomatic relations. In 1963, Poland opened a resident embassy in Lagos (it would later relocate to
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in 2002).Political cooperation Poland-Nigeria
/ref> In 1969, Nigeria opened an embassy in Warsaw. During the Nigerian Civil War, Poland supported the Nigerian Federal Government. A cultural cooperation agreement between Nigeria and Poland was signed in Warsaw in 1976. During the 1980s, there was stagnation in diplomatic relations between both nations. This was due to political and economic difficulties in Nigeria at the time (drop in oil prices and military upheavals) and political unease and the
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movement in Poland. In the 1990s, sporadic political contacts were maintained. In 1978, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo paid his first visit to Poland. President Obasanjo would pay a second visit to Poland in October 2001 where he met with President (and former communist)
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. In April 2013, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk paid a two-day visit to Nigeria and met with President Goodluck Jonathan.Business visits of Prime Minister Donald Tusk
/ref> In December 2018, Nigerian President
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paid a visit to
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, Poland to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24). During President Buhari's visit, he met with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Bilateral relations between Nigeria and Poland have been marked by mutual cooperation and support for each other in international forums. Poland regards Nigeria as one of its most important trade partners in Africa, south of the
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.


High-level visits

High-level visits from Nigeria to Poland * President Olusegun Obasanjo (1978, 2001) * Foreign Minister
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(2000) * Foreign Minister Viola Onwuliri (2014) * Foreign Permanent Secretary
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(2014) * Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama (2016) * President
Muhammad Buhari Muhammadu Buhari (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician and current president of Nigeria since 2015. Buhari is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the country's military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 Au ...
(2018) High-level visits from Poland to Nigeria * Foreign Minister
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(2004) * Undersecretary of State Beata Stelmach (2012) * Prime Minister Donald Tusk (2013) * Deputy Foreign Minister
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(2017)


Bilateral agreements

Both nations have signed a few bilateral agreements such as a Trade Agreement (1962); Memorandum of Understanding on Political Consultations (2012); Agreement on Strategic Partnership (2013); and a Cooperation Agreement (2013).


Resident diplomatic missions

* Nigeria has an embassy in Warsaw. * Poland has an embassy in
Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...
.Embassy of Poland in Abuja
/ref> File:Ambasada Nigerii w Warszawie.jpg, Embassy of Nigeria in Warsaw File:Polish Embassy, Abuja2.jpg, Embassy of Poland in Abuja


See also

*
Foreign relations of Nigeria Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterised by a focus on Africa as a regional power and by attach ...
* Foreign relations of Poland


References

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