The government’s resolution on the need to regulate the issue of reparations in Polish-German relations was published in Monitor Polski. So we know the full contents of the document.
Let us remind you that on Tuesday – on the initiative of the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arkadiusz Mularczyk – the Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on the need to address the issue of reparations, compensation and compensation in Polish-German relations in connection with the German attack on Poland in 1939 and the subsequent German occupation.
At a later press conference, Deputy Minister Mularczyk said the purpose of the resolution was to formally respond to the Polish government’s response to Germany’s response to a Polish diplomatic note demanding reparations and compensation. Mularczyk stated that “the German side replied in a very laconic form that the issue of reparations was closed.”
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FULL RESOLUTION:
DECISION NO. 51
OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
of April 18, 2023
on the need to settle in Polish-German relations the question of reparations, indemnities and compensation for losses suffered by Poland and Poland as a result of Germany’s unlawful attack on Poland in 1939 and the subsequent German occupation
The Council of Ministers, acting in accordance with art. 146 sec. 1 and 4 point 9 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of April 2, 1997 state as follows:
§ 1. Neither in the time of the Polish People’s Republic nor in the time of the Free Republic of Poland, after the Government of Poland and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany regained in 1989 the possibility of sovereign and democratic determination of its fate, does the question of reparations, damages, compensation or any other form of compensation for material and immaterial losses suffered by Poland and Poland as a result of the unlawful invasion of Poland in September 1939 by Germany and the subsequent German occupation.
§ 2. In particular, neither the government of the People’s Republic of Poland nor the government of the Free Republic of Poland ever actually relinquished and resigned from seeking reparations, compensation or compensation from the Federal Republic of Germany for losses caused during World War II.
§ 3. The Government of the Republic of Poland recalls that the issue of reparations, indemnities and compensation for losses incurred by Poles and Poles as a result of the Second World War has not yet been settled between the Republic of Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany in the form of an international agreement.
§ 4. Taking into account the enormous amount of damage, suffering and damage caused by Germany during the Second World War, the Government of the Republic of Poland considers that the issue of the rules for the payment of reparations, compensation and compensation for Poland suffered losses and Poland required the fastest possible settlement between the Republic of Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany.
§ 5. The resolution will enter into force on the day of its adoption.
Prime Minister: M. Morawiecki
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Source: wPolityce