Witold Waszczykowski
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Witold Waszczykowski has set conditions for normalizing relations with Russia. He said this in an interview with PAP.
“If Russia requires us to respect and pragmatism, and we demand this from her. President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to do everything [to normalize relations]. I say, don’t need “everything”. Start with the transmission of the wreckage [of the presidential plane Tu-154M] and cancel economic sanctions against Poland. Then back to the topic of pragmatic relations”, — said the head of the Polish foreign Ministry.
November 9 this year during the ceremony of presenting credentials, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin addressing the new Polish Ambassador said that relations between Russia and Poland can hardly be called satisfactory, but Moscow is ready to change things for the better.
“We believe that the restoration of the political dialogue is possible on the basis of mutual respect and pragmatism. We are ready to do our part in order to achieve this goal,” — said Putin, referring to the new head of the Polish diplomatic mission in Russia to Aleksander Wlodzimierz Marciniak, the.
A significant negative impact on relations between the two countries has also had a plane crash in 2010 near Smolensk, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and a number of dignitaries. In 2016, the Minister of defence of Poland Anthony Macierewicz blamed for what happened to Russia. Official Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has called the charges unfounded and has nothing to do with reality.