In October, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced that he had withdrawn his consent to the operation of the Russian Consulate General in Poznan.
Russian diplomats will leave the consulate in Poznan in the coming days, and the Polish government will respond favorably to Kyiv’s request to organize a Ukrainian consulate in the same place, RMF24 reports.
In October, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced that he had withdrawn his consent to the operation of the Russian Consulate General in Poznan. On Saturday, journalists asked the minister when Russian representatives would leave the Poznań area and how he assessed the idea of locating a Ukrainian diplomatic establishment in the same area.
“The lease agreement for this place will expire at the end of this month. Now we are talking about a few days. The current network of Ukrainian consulates, due to the unprecedented that increase in the number of Ukrainian citizens in Poland, does not meet the needs of the consulate. Please note that consulates deal with practical matters. These are all kinds of legal affairs, children are born, people are dying.
In October, Radoslaw Sikorski argued the decision to withdraw permission to open a Russian consulate in Poznan by the fact that the Russian Federation is waging a war against Ukraine and a hybrid war against the West, including Poland. Sikorsky said that as Foreign Minister he had information that Russia was behind the sabotage attempts on Poland and allied countries.
The Russian consulate in Poznan was established in 1946 by agreement between the Soviet embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Polish People’s Republic. The consulate suspended its activities in 1948 and reopened in 1960. In 1971, it was converted into a consulate general.
Let’s remember that the Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh said that the Ukrainians “forgot about the help provided by Poland.” In a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, he told him “how much Poland has done and how much it has helped Ukraine,” noting that Ukrainians have a “short memory.” Warsaw was angry that, according to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, it appeared that “Poland is not doing everything possible.” Kosiniak-Kamysh emphasized that at the beginning of the war, Poland actively transferred military equipment and organized humanitarian aid.
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