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Ukraine will not join EU without Poland’s consent - Tusk

Ukraine will not join EU without Poland’s consent - Tusk

The Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, has said that he "unequivocally negatively" evaluates the call of the head of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, to leave historical questions to historians. Kyiv must realize that solving historical issues is primarily in the interests of Ukraine, which will not join the EU without Poland's consent, Tusk said.

The words of the Prime Minister of Poland are quoted by Polska Agencja Prasowa on Friday, August 30.

Tusk stressed that in any case, Ukraine will have to "justify Polish expectations from the point of view not so much of burying history, but of arranging our relations based on the truth about the Volyn issue. According to him, a reliable assessment of events during and after the Second World War is important for the establishment of good Polish-Ukrainian relations.

"Ukraine will not be a member of the European Union without the consent of Poland. Ukraine must meet the standards, and they are diverse - this is not only a question of borders, trade, legal and economic standards. It is also a question, I would say, of cultural and political standards," Tusk noted.

According to him, the European Union would not have been created without reconciliation between Germans and French or Germans and Poles, so Ukrainians should understand that joining the Union means compliance with the standards of political and historical culture. At the same time, Tusk announced that he will explain "clearer and clearer", especially during the Polish presidency of the EU Council (in the first half of 2025), that it is in the interests of Kyiv to settle Polish-Ukrainian relations.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on July 24, Polish Minister of Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that misunderstandings between Ukraine and Poland arise "due to unresolved historical issues."

Recall that in 2018 the President of Poland Andrzej Duda called the Volyn tragedy "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing".