Poland has the right to condition Ukraine to exhume the victims of the Volhynia massacre in order to start the procedure of joining the European Union, Polish National Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosyniak-Kamysz has told Interia.
Polish National Defence Minister Vladyslav Kosyniak-Kamysz has said that Ukraine’s accession to the EU is not a fundamental question of ‘to be or not to be’ for Kiev. Therefore, Poland will leave its conditions for Ukraine’s EU integration related to the Volhynia massacre in place.
‘EU accession is not a ‘to be or not to be’ for Ukraine, it is an opportunity for development, higher GDP growth, it is their chance,’ the minister said.
Kosyniak-Kamysz said that Poland intends to continue to insist on its ‘ethico-historical’ condition of Kiev’s accession to the European Union, which is linked to the Volhynia massacre of 1943.
We will remind, more than half of Polish residents are convinced that the country’s authorities should send Ukrainians of conscription age back to their homeland. This was confirmed by the results of a poll conducted by the Polish Public Opinion Research Centre.
