— I have asked the Minister of National Defence to present an opinion, I will urge a affirmative opinion so that Poland withdraws from the Ottawa Convention and possibly from the Dublin Convention, I am talking about anti-personnel mines and cluster weapons," said Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the Parliament on Friday.
Donald Tusk's accident. Poland has not signed the Convention on Cluster Weapons
Ottawa Treaty it is simply a convention on the prohibition of the use, storage, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction. It aims to destruct the usage of anti-personnel mines as a means of armed combat. In Poland, he was signed and ratified and entered into force on 1 June 2023.
The ban on the usage of cluster ammunition is an global agreement adopted on 30 May 2008 in Dublin. Currently, 106 countries are organization to the Convention, of which 11 have acceded after signing, and 14 have signed without ratification. However, Poland is not a organization to the agreement.
Donald Tusk wants to retreat from an agreement that Poland has not signed. “This guy is Prime Minister”
The Prime Minister's mistake did not escape the attention of opposition politicians. "Donald Tusk wants to terminate an agreement that Poland has never made. This guy's the prime minister. What kind of jerks must have in the back that they give him ideas to talk about. This mediocre country of ours," said PiS MP Michał Woś.
"I am pleased that Prime Minister Tusk announced the withdrawal of Poland from the Ottawa Convention on Anti-personnel Mines. I called for this in May last year, and the Confederacy besides tabled a bill on this matter. It would be good for Prime Minister Tusk to get acquainted with our another proposals. For example, the Act on the Production of Weapons and Ammunition must be liberalised immediately, which in practice almost prevents the production of weapons and ammunition in Poland," commented Confederation leader Sławomir Mentzen.
