Tusk warned that easing tensions will require honest conversations about historical issues and reciprocal goodwill, while noting early signs that Kyiv may be ready to engage.<\/p>\n
Poland\u2019s Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that Ukraine must take steps to de-escalate tensions in its relations with Poland, and he has signals that Kyiv understands this.<\/p>\n
He expressed this position during a press conference in Warsaw, evaluating the development of Ukrainian-Polish relations and today\u2019s meeting of Foreign Ministers Andriy Sibiga and Radoslav Sikorsky.<\/p>\n
I am receiving signals that the Ukrainian side is apparently waking up to the realization: it is worth seeking ways for an honest conversation also about the past, and not to escalate this tension. We shall see \u2013 this is probably a long process, but I am convinced that good Ukrainian-Polish relations serve mutual interests, yet require goodwill on Kyiv\u2019s part. It can no longer be that only Warsaw demonstrates goodwill all the time.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Donald Tusk, during the press conference<\/p>\n
According to the prime minister, achieving a de-escalation zone depends on the readiness of both sides to engage in open dialogue and mutual respect.<\/p>\n
Stance on the prospects for dialogue<\/p>\n
Tusk stresses that reducing tensions serves mutual interests and requires constructive interaction and willingness by both sides to discuss past issues openly and with respect.<\/p>\n
In this way, both countries have a chance to strengthen stable and predictable relations, oriented toward shared values and mutually beneficial steps in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tusk warned that easing tensions will require honest conversations about historical issues and reciprocal goodwill, while noting early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10733,64,10734,10735,101,338,2588],"class_list":["post-15957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-tusk","tag-deescalation","tag-donald-tusk","tag-foreign-ministers-meeting","tag-kyiv-warsaw-talks","tag-news","tag-tusk","tag-ukraine-poland-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}