Ukraine’s foreign ministry has called for calm in the dispute pitting Kyiv against three of its neighbours over their decision to impose unilateral ban on Ukrainian farm imports.
On Wednesday, Poland summoned Kyiv’s envoy to the foreign ministry, after comments by Ukraine’s president on a ban on grain imports angered the government in Warsaw, which is toughening its stance in advance of October elections.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, writing on Facebook, said, “We urge our Polish friends to put aside their emotions. The Ukrainian side has offered Poland a constructive path to resolve the grain issue.”
Nikolenko said Ukraine’s ambassador explained Kyiv’s position on the “unacceptability” of the Polish ban and suggested Kyiv’s proposals “will become the basis for moving the dialogue into a constructive course”.
Ukraine’s ambassador, Nikolenko claimed, also underlined the “incorrectness” of remarks by Polish President Andrzej Duda in New York that Ukraine should remember that it receives help from Poland. Duda had likened Kyiv to a “drowning person”.
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