Poland’s Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz has expressed hope that the historic dispute between Ukraine and Poland would be solved at a meeting of deputy prime ministers of the two countries scheduled for next week, the Polish Radio has reported.
“I hope that this meeting will take place. At least we have received confirmation. We planned a discussion on the historical relations between our countries. We also intend to obtain permission from the Ukrainian authorities to conduct exhumation work,” Czaputowicz said after the meeting with the Estonian foreign minister in Warsaw.
The minister said that Poland is aware of the concerns of the Ukrainian authorities about the amendment to the law on the Institute of National Remembrance. This is an amendment that caused criticism both in Israel and Ukraine, as well as about the ban on exhumation, which was to be held by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
As reported, on February 1, 2018, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko, during his visit to Poland scheduled for mid-February 2017, will raise the issue of the law adopted by the Polish parliament, which bans “Bandera ideology.”
“These laws do not improve relations between the two countries and introduce some discord in our relations, although I am sure that even the adoption of such laws will not become a basis for Ukraine and Poland to radically split because of this,” he said on Ukraine’s Channel 5 TV.
He said that Kyiv would study the final text of the adopted law, since the interpretations in this law are very fuzzy and vague, and there are no restrictions on their application, including for foreign citizens.
Rozenko said that the preliminary date of his visit to Poland had already been determined. “The visit should take place in mid-February,” he said.
