Polish Radio
April 1, 2022

Polish peacekeeping plan for NATO allies to discuss: Ukrainian FM

Poland’s proposal to send international peacekeepers into war-torn Ukraine is for Poland to discuss with its NATO partners because Ukraine is not a member of the alliance, the Ukrainian foreign minister said in Warsaw on Friday.

Dmytro Kuleba said that, during his visit to Poland, he talked with government officials including Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński about a Polish proposal to send a NATO peacekeeping mission to Ukraine….

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“I think that since this initiative came from Poland, we are leaving it to the Polish government to decide how to further push for it and discuss it with NATO allies,” he told reporters.

“We are not part of the NATO alliance; we are close partners of NATO, but we are not inside the alliance,” he said.

“We have trust in Poland, and we are leaving it up to them to decide how to move forward with this initiative,” he added.

Poland’s Kaczyński, who is the leader of the country’s governing conservatives and deputy prime minister in charge of security, travelled to Kyiv last month, together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech leader Petr Fiala and Slovenia’s Janez Janša, for face-to-face talks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.

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Kaczyński said at the time: “There is a need for a peacekeeping mission by NATO, maybe also by some wider international body” in Ukraine, “a mission that will be able to defend itself, and which will operate on Ukrainian territory.”

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The Polish foreign ministry’s spokesman, Łukasz Jasina, said earlier this week that the Polish proposal remained “at the disposal of our Ukrainian friends.”

Jasina told a news conference at the time: “If our Ukrainian friends decide to use this plan, we remain at their disposal.”

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Rustavi2
April 1, 2022

Poland is ready to become a guarantor of Ukraine’s security – Yaroslav Kaczynski

Poland is ready to become a guarantor of Ukraine’s security, if the United States is also among the guarantors. Such a statement made Polish Deputy Prime Minister, head of the ruling Law and Justice party Yaroslav Kaczynski.

Earlier, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with the Russian Federation, David Arakhamia, said that Kyiv was proposing a new system of security guarantees for Ukraine. According to him, Kyiv sees the UN Security Council countries, as well as Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel as guarantors of security.

“If these were serious guarantees, that is, with the participation of the United States, as well as other major European states, then I do not see any contraindications here,” Kaczynski said.