2023-09-24 19:13:50
Updated Sunday, September 24, 2023 – 19:13
First gesture of relaxation between both countries after several days of great disagreement
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The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, stated this Sunday that will maintain the vetoto the entry of Ukrainian cereal to the Polish market but stated that the transit of these products through Poland.
Days after the dispute between kyiv and Warsaw – where there are elections in three weeks – escalated to the point that the Polish Government put on the table the possibility of not donating more weapons to its neighbor at war, Duda’s statements point for the first time in the direction of a détente.
“I think it is right that the Polish Government has maintained the veto on the sale of Ukrainian grain on the Polish market. However, I am convinced that we must do everything possible to ensure the greatest possible traffic“Duda told the public channel TVP1.
“Unfortunately, during the war, this cereal It barely reached those countries that really needed itwhile it flooded markets like the Polish market,” he noted.
The Polish president stated however that it is “completely false” that imports have stopped completely and noted that the transit through Poland “continues to occur” at this time through the special corridors established for this purpose.
Duda affirmed that the difficult situation forced the Government in Warsaw to take “radical” measures to support its farmers in the absence of support from Brussels, unilateral his veto on the import of Ukrainian products after the restrictions imposed at community level expired.
On this occasion, the Polish president avoided criticism of Ukraine, after in the midst of a verbal escalation last Wednesday he described the Government in kyiv as “man who drowns and clings to everything he can” and from which it is legitimate to “protect yourself.”
These statements came after Ukraine filed a complaint against Poland before the World Trade Organization (WTO) and threatened to veto imports of Polish agricultural products.
A meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodmir Zelensky, which was to be held this week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York was cancelled, officially due to lack of time.
Yesterday, however, on his return trip to Ukraine, Zelensky paid a visit surprise to the city of Lublinin eastern Poland, where he met with members of civil society and thanked “all of Poland” for their “inestimable support.”
After community restrictions imposed at the request of of border passes with Ukrainekyiv has reached early agreements with Romania and Slovakia, but Poland and Hungary still maintain them.
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