Ukrainian Foreign Ministry condemns manipulative statements of Polish presidential candidate about Ukraine
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Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:43:01 +0200
Ukraines Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected statements made by Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki who claimed that Ukraine should not be a member of NATO or the EU due to unresolved historical issues.
Source a statement by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, 9 January, as reported by European Pravda Details The Foreign Ministry dismissed Nawrockis remarks about Ukraines future in the EU and NATO as biased and manipulative.
Quote Such statements indicate that the Polish politician prioritises shortterm political considerations over the strategic security interests of his own country, the goodneighbourly relations between Ukraine and Poland and the shared values of freedom, democracy and justice. Details The ministry emphasised that dialogue between Kyiv and Warsaw regarding historical issues is ongoing, while Nawrockis statements were met with applause in the Kremlin.
Quote Regardless of the statements made by this Polish politician, the reality is that Ukraine is already de facto and will become de jure part of the EuroAtlantic family of nations and of the common European security architecture. More details Karol Nawrocki, supported as a presidential candidate by the former ruling party Law and Justice, stated that he does not see Ukraine as a part of either the EU or NATO.
A country that cannot answer for a very brutal crime against 120,000 of its neighbours cannot be part of international alliances, Nawrocki declared, referring to disputes over the events in Volhynia in the 1940s.
Background In late November, Polish Foreign Minister Radosaw Sikorski and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha issued a joint statement addressing the issue of exhumations of victims of the Volyn tragedy.
The Volyn Volhynia tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during World War II.
It was part of a longstanding rivalry between Ukrainians and Poles in what is now Ukraines west.
Poland considers the Volyn tragedy a genocide of Poles ed.
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