Jakarta –
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly insinuating a ban on grain imports has thrown Poland and Ukraine into conflict. This even made Poland decide to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Reported by AFP and Reuters, Thursday (21/9/2023), Zelensky in his speech before the UN General Assembly in New York, United States (US), said that Ukraine attempted to maintain land routes for grain exports. But he said there was a “political drama” that only helped Russia.
Not only that, Zelensky even said that several countries were pretending to express solidarity with Kyiv.
The comments drew a strong reaction from Poland, which condemned Zelensky’s remarks as “unjustified regarding Poland.” Moreover Poland has supported Ukraine since the first days of the war’.
Warsaw is known to have been one of Kyiv’s staunchest supporters since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022. But now the two countries are involved in a dispute after Poland, along with Hungary and Slovakia, extended a ban on Ukrainian grain imports to protect the interests of their farmers.
This situation began when the European Union, on Friday (15/9) last week, announced an end to the ban on imports of Ukrainian grain in five of its member countries.
The announcement was met with anger and sparked a unilateral embargo to which Kyiv responded by saying it would lodge a protest with the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Polish Prime Minister (PM) Mateusz Morawiekci, on Wednesday (20/9) local time, warned that the list of Ukrainian products prohibited for import would be expanded if Kyiv continued to escalate the dispute over grain.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Zvarych to convey their protest.
“Putting pressure on Poland in multilateral forums or submitting complaints to international courts is not an appropriate method for resolving disputes between our countries,” the Polish Foreign Ministry said in a statement to Ambassador Zvarych.
It was also stated by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (Wamenlu) Pawel Jablonski had ‘expressed a strong protest from the Polish side against the statement made by President V Zelensky at the UN General Assembly yesterday, which accused several European Union countries of pretending to provide solidarity while indirectly supports Russia’.
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(dwia/dwia)
2023-09-21 15:33:40
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