Ukrainian Overseas Ministry condemns manipulative statements of Polish presidential candidate about Ukraine

Ukraine’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs has rejected statements made by Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki who claimed that Ukraine shouldn’t be a member of NATO or the EU because of unresolved historic points.

Supply: a press release by the Ukrainian Ministry of Overseas Affairs on Thursday, 9 January, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: The Overseas Ministry dismissed Nawrocki's remarks about Ukraine’s future within the EU and NATO as "biased and manipulative".

Quote: "Such statements point out that the Polish politician prioritises short-term political issues over the strategic safety pursuits of his personal nation, the good-neighbourly relations between Ukraine and Poland and the shared values of freedom, democracy and justice."

Particulars: The ministry emphasised that dialogue between Kyiv and Warsaw relating to historic points is ongoing, whereas Nawrocki’s statements have been "met with applause within the Kremlin".

Quote: "Whatever the statements made by this Polish politician, the fact is that Ukraine is already de facto and can turn out to be de jure a part of the Euro-Atlantic household of countries and of the widespread European safety structure."

Extra particulars: Karol Nawrocki, supported as a presidential candidate by the previous ruling get together Regulation and Justice, acknowledged that he doesn’t see Ukraine as part of "both the EU or NATO".

"A rustic that can’t reply for a really brutal crime in opposition to 120,000 of its neighbours can’t be a part of worldwide alliances," Nawrocki declared, referring to disputes over the occasions in Volhynia within the Forties.

Background:

• In late November, Polish Overseas Minister Radosław Sikorski and Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha issued a joint assertion addressing the problem of exhumations of victims of the Volyn tragedy.
• [The Volyn (Volhynia) tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during World War II. It was part of a long-standing rivalry between Ukrainians and Poles in what is now Ukraine's west. Poland considers the Volyn tragedy a genocide of Poles – ed.]

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