The Republic of Poland and the Republic of Belarus established diplomatic relations on March 2, 1992. Poland was one of the first countries to recognise Belarusian independence.. Polish and Belorussian cultures have been tied together for many centuries.

Cultural relations between the two are quite friendly but diplomatic relations between the two countries are very uncertain. Belarus has an Embassy in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Consulates General in Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

 and Białystok, and a Consulate in Biała Podlaska. Poland has an Embassy in Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

 and Consulates General in Brest

Brest, Belarus

Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...

 and Hrodna

Hrodna

Grodno or Hrodna , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 327,540 inhabitants...

.

Wiktar Gaisenak is the Belarusian ambassador

Ambassador

An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

 in Poland; Tadeusz Pawlak is the Polish ambassador in Belarus.

Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

 and Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 share a common border (~418 km long) which is the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

 external border.

Poles make up 3.9% of the population of Belarus according to the 1999 Belarus Census. There were 48,700 Belarusians living in Poland

Belarusian minority in Poland

Belarusian minority in Poland is composed of 48,700 people according to the Polish census of 2002. This number decreased in the last decades from over 300,000 due to an active process of assimilation. Most of them live in the Podlaskie Voivodeship....

 according to the Polish census of 2002

Polish census of 2002

- Significant ethnic minorities :In addition to Poles, ethnic groups of more than 25,000 people compose the following:-References:...

. Both the minorities represent autochthonous population of the region and are officially recognised.

Events

In August, 2011, the arrest of Alex Belatsky using information from Poland led to a harsh war of words between the two countries.