Presidents Bronislaw Komorowski and Petro Poroshenko in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Photo: EPA / ANDREW Kravchenko
President Bronislaw Komorowski said during a visit to Kiev that the West will be safe when Ukraine will be safe. During the ceremony at the Polish cemetery in Bykivnya he stressed that the world must remember the Katyn massacre, that nothing similar will never happen again.
On Thursday, President Bronislaw Komorowski went on a visit to Ukraine. For the first time he appeared before the local parliament, as well as during the ceremony at the cemetery in Bykivnya paid homage to the Poles murdered in Katyn.
The Polish president’s speech in the Verkhovna Rada listened to, among others, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Bronislaw Komorowski expressed his hope that today’s Polish-Ukrainian relations did not disturb difficult historical experience, and the Poles and the Ukrainians will be able to face discussion about the history of their conflicts and their tragic consequences.
Komorowski pointed out that the right way for both nations is mutual forgiveness and reconciliation, based on nurturing the memory of the victims of fratricidal murder.
face Russian aggression in Ukraine – said the president – the Western world must understand that “will be safe when the safe is Ukraine”. He stressed that the Ukrainians, who are killed in the east of the country, also defend Europe. That’s why – he said – “Europe can never forget the victims of Heavenly Hundreds of heroes.”
“The condition for the success of Ukraine is consent”
It is impossible not to notice – continued Komorowski – that in Ukraine there are soldiers, tanks, armored personnel carriers and rocket launchers aggressor. – Lie world you go, but do not come back again – he says Ukrainian proverb. Today, this lie can only close your eyes blind. The Western world must understand that it is safe when the safe will be Ukraine – he stressed.
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why – he said – Poland It supports all efforts to resolve the conflict, including the Minsk agreement, and expects that these agreements will be adhered to and implemented in life.
President also assured that the EU and NATO countries recognize the territorial integrity of Ukraine within the limits laid down in 1991, and their change “by force against the will of the Ukrainian people, will never find our acceptance and always will be condemned by us”.
Bronislaw Komorowski stressed that in his opinion an association agreement with the EU will bring Ukraine with a “post-Soviet space.” Reserved, however, that consent is a prerequisite for success.
Komorowski said that Poland will support Ukraine’s demand for the lifting of the visa regime with the EU.
the president’s speech was accepted with applause. After its completion, Komorowski exchanged handshakes with Ukrainian President and Prime Minister Yatsenjouk.
President Komorowski for the first time speaking at a forum of the Ukrainian parliament. He announced that in the near future further meeting is planned Polish and Ukrainian presidents
first Polish president at a forum in favor of the Ukrainian parliament, in 1997, was Aleksander Kwasniewski.
“The threat of totalitarianism exists”
President Bronislaw Komorowski also visited the cemetery in Bykivnya, where he was buried almost 3,500 Polish citizens murdered during the Second World War by the NKVD. Honored the memory of the victims along with the president of Ukraine.
During the ceremony, the President said that Ukraine still see that there is still a threat of totalitarianism. In his opinion, it is the real danger of trampling international law or nieszanowania sovereignty of other states and nations. Current are also trying to impose their own will on the weaker stronger. Bronislaw Komorowski recalled that 75 years ago no one would also believe in the threat and the vastness of the crime, which itself has made.
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– We are together with the Ukrainians, who not only commemorate, surround your thoughts and prayers the victims of the Ukrainian, but also are an example of the most important things that you should always fight to the end – said Bykivnya Polish president.
In closing speech, Komorowski thanked for the fact that in Bykivnya made “a special place common memory, common reflection and also a common aspiration to a better, safer world”. As pointed out by the Polish president, it “is in itself a warning, not only related to historical reflection, but also think about today and the future.”
– Dark darkness lurking terrible past here in Bykivnya and still haunts our memory – in turn, said in his speech Poroshenko. He pointed out that in dark times of great terror “torturers” were shot in Bykivnya Poles, Ukrainians and Jews, and this place is “one of the biggest funerals of the victims of totalitarianism.” – Soviet Empire transformed the whole of the Ukraine in Bykivnya – he said.
“The New Meaning of annexation”
Petro Poroshenko also said that the word “Anschluss”, ” annexation “and” occupation “take on new meaning for Ukraine. – These dreadful events should not be repeated ever again – said Poroshenko.
After the celebrations Komorowski stressed in an interview with reporters that “each in his own way experiencing this anniversary and this remarkable place.” – For me this is a moment of triumph memory and warnings – he added.
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He noted that the festivities in Bykivnya take place in a difficult time for Ukraine, “when you have to remember all the events that constitute a warning against any kind of totalitarianism, forces capable of violation of international law and order “.
– This cemetery, like all cemeteries in Katyn, a reminder of the days when the norm was to impose the will of the powers to others, weaker – he said.
He stressed that the cruelty of the Katyn massacre on the scale consisted not, because knowledgeable and bigger, and scarier, but that has been made prisoners of war. – She was breaking the simplest principles that prisoners will not kill – he stressed.
Visit symbolic, but not only
– The visit of President Bronislaw Komorowski in Kiev was high symbolic, but there were also specifics, such as clarifying the purpose of the loan for Ukraine – stressed Jewgen Vorobyov, analyst. Ukraine in the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
Vorobyov noted that an important aspect of the visit will be Wednesday’s declaration of presidents of Petro Poroshenko and Bronislaw Komorowski on that, to the territory of Donbas were introduced UN peacekeeping force. Komorowski asked whether Poland would take part in the UN peacekeeping mission said that should be in it rather forces not involved in the conflict in Ukraine. He pointed out that if it was needed, not uchylalibyśmy from that.
– Very well, that Poland and Ukrainian discuss such a scenario at the bilateral level. Of course we all realize that this is not a matter of weeks, but the prospect of months. Support for such an initiative, it is important to settle this matter in order to convince members of the UN Security Council – stressed the expert.
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The opinion Vorobyov, another important issue is to “concretise” the Polish president, which will be allocated 100 million euro loan for Ukraine. Half is to be spent on modernization of border crossings, the second part of the modernization of the Ukrainian power plants. – It is important for the direction of Polish-Ukrainian economic relations – he decided.
– The visit, except that she had a very high symbolic importance, as evidenced by the speech of President Komorowski in the Ukrainian parliament, also had very specific aspects – Vorobyov noted.
examiner refer to the content of President Komorowski in the Ukrainian parliament. – Statement was quite strong, very important for Ukrainians. They heard the signal that the situation their country is not only an internal problem but a European problem – he said.
President Bronislaw Komorowski will be a guest on Radio Programme Friday 10th April at 7.45.
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