Demarche: Ukrainian ex-minister refused to be friends with Poland because of the Sejm’s decision on the Volyn massacre
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and ex-ally of Viktor Yushchenko Boris Tarasyuk resigned as head of the group of interparliamentary relations and friendship with Poland.
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He stated this on Radio Liberty.
The deputy explains this decision by the “anti-Ukrainian and irresponsible position” of his Polish colleagues, who today recognized the Volyn tragedy as the genocide of the Poles, for which Tarasyuk’s ideological predecessors from the OUN and UPA are responsible.
“This is, so to speak, my personal protest against anti-Ukrainian actions, against non-constructivism, against the irresponsibility of the authors of these Polish statements,” Tarasyuk said.
The deputy believes that it is now urgent to create an Institute of Poland in Ukraine so that historians can professionally deal with issues of general history.
“We, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, called on Polish and Ukrainian historians to pay more attention to the study of these difficult pages. So that this should not be done by politicians on both sides, responsible or irresponsible, but by historians. Therefore, the founding of the Institute of Poland in Ukraine is now urgent,” noted Tarasyuk.
Let us recall that on July 22, the Sejm of Poland adopted a resolution that recognized the Volyn tragedy as genocide of Polish citizens, organized by Ukrainian nationalists. According to the document, the Day of Remembrance for the victims of this tragedy in Poland will be celebrated annually on July 11, since, according to Polish historians, July 11, 1943 was the culmination of anti-Polish actions in Volyn.
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