At the request of the Albanian government, Poland in late December sent 4 firefighter teams to the country and 500 field beds in earthquake aid.

However, in September 2008, President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, stated that the original cause of the 2008 South Ossetia war was not the Georgian operation, but the recognition of Kosovo's independence[7] and that he would block attempts to establish diplomatic relations of Poland with Kosovo at ambassadorial level; however, the government has not proposed to send an ambassador to Pristina.

[9] In the events following the increased tension resulting from the situation in Ukraine, Albania and Poland have both deployed their soldiers as part of a "battle group" in Latvia.

[10] In a bilateral meeting, Jacek Czaputowicz stated:[10] Poland strongly supports Albania's membership of the EU... We believe that the people of Albania should receive a clear message that the EU is open and awaits Albania, and that this membership would make the EU more culturally rich... We appreciate the Albanian government's reform efforts; we are happy that they were noticed by the European Commission, whose report last April made an unconditional recommendation for the Council of the European Union to open accession negotiationsOn May 7, 2018, Czaputowicz stressed the importance of "solidarity" between Eastern European countries, noting that "the Western Balkans are undergoing a similar developmental path as Poland" and thus "have similar interests".

[11] On July 5, 2019, Polish head of state Andrzej Duda "scolded" the EU in a summit as Poznań for delaying membership talks for Albania and North Macedonia, stating "The European Union shouldn't treat countries this way when they are carrying out difficult reforms aimed at future integration".