The Foreign Minister Sikorski meets Russian and Polish diplomats. "No conflict, collaborate and improve our economies." Upset the opposition, "return to its historic roots Warsaw, Minsk and Kiev as less Moscow."
The umpteenth reconciliation, looking to 2011. On Thursday, September 3, in Warsaw took place a meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, and Russian, Sergei Lavrov, called an exception to the annual meeting of diplomats from around the country. The purpose of the forum, the preparation for the second half of 2011. When Poland, for the first time in its history, will hold the rotating presidency of the EU. An opportunity that Warsaw intends to devote to the improvement relations with Moscow, after years of misunderstandings and conflicts, caused by historical reasons and energy.
A wave of harmony that was be breathing at the meeting between Lavrov and Sikorski. Which, in a joint statement, said the need to improve relations between the two countries, in the wake of what happened in recent months. Accomplices, the renewed agreements on gas, and cooperation to clarify the dynamics of the tragedy of Smolensk: the plane crash in which, on April 10 last year, lost their lives, the President, Lech Kaczynski, and other major state offices. Furthermore, the two have talked about concrete joint projects for the future, such as modernization of the economies, new energy infrastructure ed impegno comune per chiudere, in definitiva, le ferite del passato. In primis, la strage di Katyn - in cui, nel 1940, l'NKVD sterminò il fiore della intellighenzia polacca, rea di essere il meglio di un Paese che, secondo i piani di Stalin, avrebbe dovuto essere sottomesso all'URSS.
Nel corso della conferenza stampa, Lavrov ha spiegato di rapportarsi con Varsavia non solo per dialogare con essa, bensì per interagire con tutta l'Unione Europea, con cui il Cremlino ha pieno interesse ad instaurare serene relazioni. Per questa ragione, ha espresso piena soddisfazione per il nuovo corso della politica estera di Polonia e Repubblica Ceca, meno aggressive nei confronti di Mosca, e maggiormente consapevoli delle loro responsabilità in seno all'UE. Secondo il capo della diplomazia del Cremlino, i due Paesi - pronti, solo qualche anno fa, ad accogliere gli elementi dello scudo spaziale USA per difendersi da possibili aggressioni russe - avrebbero compreso che litigare con Mosca è controproducente.
"Le nostre relazioni - ha evidenziato - sono notevolente migliorate. Credo che la motivazione non sia legata solo alla tragedia di Smolensk, ma ad un vero e proprio riavvicinamento tra i nostri due popoli, ed alla reciproca volontà di normalizzare le relazioni, ed installare un sereno vicinato".
A sua volta, Sikorski ha accennato alla semplificazione del regime dei visti tra UE e l'enclave russa di Kaliningrad. Un progetto che, malgrado le preoccupazioni della neighboring Lithuania, Warsaw regards as its own objective to be achieved at any cost. In addition, the head of Polish diplomacy said you want to spend money on weapons, demilitarize the relations with the Russian Federation, and evolving economic terms. Regarding the issue of extreme importance will be the visit of Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, expected shortly.
"The Ukrainians - Sikorski added - either a simplified visa regime. I do not see - he continued - as such an initiative can not be extended to Kaliningrad. Of this, will address the two heads of state. Personally. reach an agreement, which will provide a renewed harmony between the parties. The same - he concluded - that today was felt during the lesson Lavrov our diplomats. "
The teacher of the Kremlin, however, did not like the opposition. MEP Conservative" Law and Justice, Ryszard Czarnecki, said that the real improvement of bilateral relations is not at all. Also, he said that Moscow is served only during the Warsaw front, preferring to Berlin as a point of contact for matters of greater importance and economic efficiency. Later, the leader of main opposition party Sikorski criticized, saying that the presence of a foreign minister at the annual meeting of foreign diplomats for the Republic of Poland, moreover, as a teacher, is an unprecedented fact, contrary to etiquette and the Rules.
for Czarnecki, this would be a natural consequence of the new course of Polish foreign policy, notevolvemte changed since the country is governed solely by the Liberal Party "Civic Platform" too timid on issues of foreign policy. According to the MEP, Poland should go back to being active towards EU integration of Belarus and Ukraine. A historic role, the chairman, Bronislaw Komorowski, and the prime minister, Donald Tusk, seem to have disowned.
Substance Lavrov of the presence of diplomats at the meeting came also the vice chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Karol Karski, commented that as unacceptable behavior of the exponent of the Kremlin.
"Nihil novi - said the leader of Law and Justice - Lavrov has not added anything to the dialogue between Warsaw and Moscow. On the contrary - said Karski - literally dictated instructions to our diplomats. We can not accept such behavior. A lecture - he continued - may be representatives of other EU or NATO. not the chief diplomat of a country that, until a few days ago, it has consistently threatened and countered. "
Matthew Cazzulani
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