112.ua: Poland names conditions for cooperation with Ukraine's Institute of National Memory - Apr. 12, 2018

112.ua: Poland names conditions for cooperation with Ukraine’s Institute of National Memory

Published April 12, 2018 at 6:02 pm

Ukrainian nationalists hold a banner and flags during a rally in front of the Polish embassy in Kiev on February 5, 2018 against Poland's adoption of a controversial Holocaust bill. The bill, which was designed to defend the country's history, has instead sparked an uproar. The Polish legislation stirred outrage in Israel as it sets penalties for anyone who refers to Nazi German death camps as Polish or accuses Poland of complicity in the Third Reich's crimes. But a different passage of the bill allows for the prosecution of anyone who denies war crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists in a move which has sparked an outcry in Kiev. / AFP PHOTO / Sergei SUPINSKY

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Returning to cooperation between the Ukrainian and Polish institutes of national memory is only possible if Ukraine lives up to certain conditions, Polskie Radio reports, quoting Jaroslaw Szarek, the head of the Institute of National Memory of Poland.

According to him, Poles, above all, demand that Ukraine releases warrants for search works, as well as exhumation and building memorials of the Poles who deceased by the hands of Ukrainian nationalists in western Ukraine in the 1930-1940s.