Poland says it will support Ukraine only on issues that are beneficial to it

The Polish authorities will support Ukraine only in what is beneficial for Warsaw, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski said on Thursday, reacting to the words of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal, who criticized Poland’s plans to expand the ban on importing Ukrainian grain, RMF 24 reports.

«At this critical moment, Poland intends to continue blocking the export of grain from Ukraine to the EU. “This is an unfriendly and populist measure that will seriously affect global food security and the economy of Ukraine,” Shmygal wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday.

According to the Polish vice-chancellor, this statement “is not very diplomatic and judicious.” «Poland is helping Ukraine to a great extent, […] But we always support Ukraine to the extent that it is beneficial for Poland,” he declared.

“Everything we do for Ukraine, as well as for other allies, we always do because it is the implementation of our national interest,” he added. “We must protect the interests of our farmers, our businessmen, our consumers,” explained the vice minister.

“If we have issues on which we disagree—which there are—we do not hesitate to speak clearly about it,” he added. “But I think that the way of doing politics should not consist of aggressive posts on Twitter, but rather an analysis of what Poland has really done for Ukraine,” she denounced.

“If someone promises access to the Polish market without consulting the Polish government, it may turn out that these promises are simply not kept,” Jablonski warned.

In April, five European countries — Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria — unilaterally banned imports of Ukrainian grain and other agricultural products as the shipments destabilized their domestic markets, threatening the well-being of local farmers and sparking public unrest. .

However, they later lifted these measures in exchange for the European Commission making the decision to impose an embargo on four food products from Ukraine until September 15: wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds.

On Wednesday, the aforementioned countries asked the institution to extend the ban.

Furthermore, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated earlier in the week that if there were signs of destabilization in other agricultural markets, the Polish government would block imports of the products causing it. With RT

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