Both countries are full members of the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations.

[1] Several vibrant Polish-Armenian communities existed especially in former southeastern Poland, the largest in Lwów, Kamieniec Podolski and briefly in Caffa, and others included Stanisławów, Jazłowiec, Buczacz, Zamość and Kuty.

[5] Józef Pomiankowski, an ethnic Polish marshal of the Austrian Army (and later Polish General after the re-establishment of independent Poland), was one of the earliest figures to discover the intention of the Young Turks to exterminate the Armenians, and the Armenian genocide was strongly condemned by Józef himself.

Poland successfully repelled the Russian invasion and secured its independence, but Armenia was conquered, which made it impossible to establish official diplomatic relations between the nations.

[11] At the height of the Cold War, both countries were communist states under Soviet domination as the Polish People's Republic and the Armenian SSR.

Lubawa-Armenia and the Armenian ministry of defense successfully set up a military industry enterprise, capable of supplying ballistic vests and helmets, vehicle decoys, and tents to the Armenian Armed Forces, and opening the gateway for Polish companies to assist in getting access to Eurasian markets.

[16] In 2017, the Senate of Poland adopted a resolution commemorating the 650th anniversary of the foundation of the Polish-Armenian community and expressed gratitude for its contribution to Polish culture and history.

[16] Following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenians in Poland demonstrated in Warsaw demanding Polish President Andrzej Duda to take a firmer hand against Turkey and Azerbaijan.