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Relations between Ukraine and Poland are determined by their common past and European future, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

“Relations between Ukraine and Poland depend not on elections, but on the common past and common European future of the two close nations,” Klimkin wrote on his Twitter page on May 25.

Previously, deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Valeriy Chaly said relations between Ukraine and Poland would develop regardless of who won the presidential election.

“Our relations with Poland are of strategic content and have real grounds to develop, no matter who is in the president’s office,” Chaly said on Inter TV channel on Sunday night.

According to exit polls, Andrzej Duda of the Law and Justice party secured 52 percent of the vote at the May 23 presidential elections, while incumbent president Bronislaw Komorowski of the Civic Platform party received 48 percent percent of the vote. Komorowski has already conceded defeat.