Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary have agreed on a common declaration on extending the ban on grain imports from Ukraine with the preservation of transit. This was announced on Wednesday by the republic’s Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Robert Telus at a joint press conference following consultations in Warsaw with colleagues from neighbouring countries.
“We have prepared and signed our common declaration of the five countries regarding the extension of the ban on grain imports to our countries, and also in our declaration we have a common position that we are open for transit,” Telus pointed out.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a press conference following the meeting that Warsaw would not open its border to grain from Ukraine and would extend the ban after 15 September on its supplies to the country unless the European Commission does so. He said the EC could reopen its borders to Ukrainian grain in less than two months – September 15 – but Poland cannot allow its market to be destabilised.
“I want to say straightforwardly – we will not open this border. Either the European Commission will agree to work out a common decision that will extend this ban, or we will do it ourselves,” he clarified.
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