According to the head of the MFA Radosław Sikorski, the Russian Federation was not allowed to close the consulate in St. Petersburg; its decision should be taken indifferently, he stated.
During his interview with journalists in Malta, Sikorski, referring to Russia's consequence to the closure of its consulate in Poznań, i.e. the closure of the Polish Consulate in Petersburg, stated: "We accept this Russian decision with a dignified indifference, due to the fact that we expected it."
"Russia does not truly have the right to controversy, due to the fact that the closure of the consulate in Poznań was due to acts of diversion in Poland and allied countries. These acts of diversion are crimes that only due to fortunate coincidences have not yet led to casualties. But Russia as everyone knows," added the head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs.
In his opinion, Russia's membership of the Organisation for safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) should be suspended. Polish minister participates in the gathering of the OSCE Ministerial Council, where Russian diplomat Sergei Lawrow is besides present.
Sikorski stressed that the current 31st OSCE Ministerial Council was held precisely on the anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, which gave Ukraine guarantees of safety and borders in exchange for the immense atomic arsenal.
"These guarantees from Russia have been brutally broken. Russia invades Ukraine, continues to occupy it and escalates the ways in which Ukraine is destroyed, including attacks that could lead to a atomic accident associated with Ukrainian atomic gyms," he said.
“ The full West tried to encourage Russia to become a normal, democratic national state, ” said the minister. Russia chose the way of aggressive, repressive kleptocracy."
Sikorski said: “In my speech I told the Russian delegation that we were not fooled by the cascade of lies that we heard again in the performance of her representatives. We know what they are doing; they are trying to rebuild the Russian Empire and there is no agreement, there will be our opposition as in the past."
"Russia destroys Ukraine, but it besides destroys the future of its country, and until it ends this brutal war, its membership of the OSCE should be suspended," he said.
Minister Sikorski, who left the area at the time of Lavrow's speech, stressed that he saw a number of another delegations do likewise.
Sikorski estimated that the intent of the OSCE's operation was undermined by the actions of Russia because, "it will break each of the principles of the Organization, and then come and play the victim."
"Although on the another hand we besides realize that this is the last place where the West and Russia can talk widely, but this must be a conversation about the return to the value of this organization, alternatively than another instrument for conducting information aggression against the free world," he added.
He stressed that he did not see Russian signs on his side for possible talks with the West. "On the contrary – he said – Russia continues to long far beyond its capabilities and escalate its demands to completely impossible".
As he pointed out, it is simply a “old russian tactic”.
On the margins of the OSCE, the Head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs reported that he met with Israel's abroad minister Gideon Saar and held informal talks with the delegations of Norway, Spain, Portugal.
"The most crucial and hard conversation, especially for my partner, was the conversation with the fresh abroad minister of Israel," Sikorski said.
When asked if the EU should impose sanctions against Georgia's Georgian Dream party, he said, "Yes, that was the subject of a number of ministers."
Referring to the fresh elections in Georgia, he said: "The difference between pollers and exit polls, which have been reliable in the past, and the announced election results is alarmingly large and we know that there have been counterfeiting, especially outside Tbilisi."
The Minister added that attention should besides be paid to the Romanian Government's late published study on the "gigantic scale of external interference through social media in the country's policy".
"This is something the media and the planet of politics should take with deadly seriousness," he said.
Sikorski asked whether there is simply a way to convince the Vatican to talk more precisely about Russia's war against Ukraine, replied: "It is not, indeed, the success of Western embassy, including ours, that the capital of Peter speaks so symmetrically about this war."
Source: PAP
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