The new Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski traveled to kyiv on Friday, December 22, for his first visit abroad, after the inauguration of the new centrist coalition government in Warsaw on December 12, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. On the program of this highly scrutinized visit, meetings with Ukrainian ministers, but also with President Volodymyr Zelensky, and above all in the background a relaunch of bilateral relations between Ukraine and Poland, damaged during the last months of the ultra-conservative government in Warsaw.
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With our correspondent in kyiv, Stéphane Siohan
The kyiv-Warsaw axis, in Eastern Europe, is a bit the equivalent of the Franco-German couple in Western Europe. A powerful strategic partnership, between two countries which have had a heavy and complex history and neighborhood, but sealed in reconciliation.
Radoslaw Sikorski, the new head of Polish diplomacy, nevertheless had his work cut out for him when he arrived in Kiev, as relations between kyiv and Warsaw, Ukraine’s best ally, have been polluted in recent years.
months by the instrumentalization of aid to Ukraine by the former conservative government, wishing to please a fringe of public opinion which perceived Ukraine as an economic competitor.
The crisis between the two countries culminated this fall with the road blockade organized by Polish drivers on the border between the two countries, blocking thousands of trucks supplying Ukraine with food.
Sikorski and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba agreed that the governments must sit down together to end this blockade and facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain via Poland.
Radoslaw Sikorski, a renowned diplomat, who has the reputation of being a friend of Ukraine, during his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, recalled that the objective of the new Tusk government was accession
from Ukraine to the European Union, and above all do everything so that Ukraine wins the war against Russia,
on the battlefield.
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