Polish, Ukrainian presidents to meet for talks during NATO summit: aide
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Grzegorz Siwicki
10.07.2018 10:19
Polish President Andrzej Duda will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko for talks on Wednesday, a senior aide to the Polish president has said.
Krzysztof Szczerski. Photo: Maciej Biedrzycki/KPRP
The meeting will take place on the sidelines of a two-day NATO summit starting in Brussels on Wednesday as an “initiative by the Ukrainian side,” Krzysztof Szczerski, chief of staff to President Duda, said on Monday, as quoted by Poland’s PAP news agency.
Szczerski added that the planned presidential talks showed that dialogue between Poland and Ukraine "is intense and sustained, and does not require external impulses."
Szczerski’s comments came after top European Union official Donald Tusk earlier in the day called on the authorities in Poland and Ukraine to ease tensions over historical issues.
Tusk was Poland's prime minister from 2007 to 2014 and is now head of the European Council, a key EU leadership position.
President Duda on Sunday took part in observances in Ukraine marking the 75th anniversary of the Volhynia Massacre, which saw some 100,000 Poles killed between March 1943 and the end of 1944 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Nazi German-occupied Poland, according to Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), which is charged with prosecuting crimes against the Polish nation.
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Source: PAP