The “Reset” TVP Info program revealed a 2008 note from the head of the MFA’s Eastern Policy Department, Jarosław Bratkiewicz, devoted to Polish policy towards Russia and Ukraine.
In the document titled “This one on the policy of the Republic of Poland towards Russia and Ukraine,” Bratkiewicz estimates that Russia will refrain from its aggressive imperial intentions because its strategic goal is the sustainability of a tactical and pragmatic alliance with the West is.
A lively dialogue with Russia is a spontaneous political value for Poland. Not only does it make all accusations of +Polish Russophobia+ baseless, but it also strengthens Poland as Russia’s foremost expert and interpreter in the Western family. Today’s Poland with its potential, firmly anchored in the EU and NATO, can afford an ambitious policy towards Russia
– writes the author of the note.
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In a 2008 note, Bratkiewicz also points out that the prospects for Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO are not very good. He emphasizes that when thinking about Polish-Ukrainian relations, it should be borne in mind that Poland’s demands for early EU and NATO membership for Ukraine “will have no causal consequences in the years to come, and as a result (in the eyes of Ukrainians, but also Europeans) the futility and futility of our efforts.
He emphasizes that Ukraine’s appeal to the institutions of the Western world, crowned with its future membership in the EU and NATO, contributes to the dismantling of the post-Soviet zone and thus to the final deimperialization of Russia.
However, it should be remembered that with all the progress of modernization and democratization in Ukraine, the country is reforming according to patterns that are still different from the Polish and Central European transformation model.
– writes Bratkiewicz, pointing, among other things, to the existence of oligarchic cliques or corruption.
According to the authors of the “Reset” program, Bratkiewicz’s note would become the official position of the Polish government for the NATO summit in Bucharest.
The program also revealed that before the NATO summit in 2008, President Lech Kaczyński asked the State Department to urgently send his letter to the leaders of NATO countries calling for Ukraine and Georgia to join the Alliance . The program stated that a yellow card with the following inscription on the document was kept in the archives of the State Department:
After consultation with the MRS (Minister Radosław Sikorski), this document is kept in our armored cabinet. wait until Monday and further instructions from MRS.
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Source: wPolityce