On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he intends to visit Poland on Friday, December 19. He made the announcement during a conversation with the media, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
“As for my visit to Poland, the Polish side proposed Friday. I think we will not postpone anything. It is very important for us to maintain relations between us and Poland,” Zelensky was reported to have said. Dr. Rafał Leśkewicz, spokesperson for the President of the Republic of Poland, informed that the meeting would take place in Warsaw.
“The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland (KPRP) proposed to the Ukrainian side a meeting between Presidents Karol Nawrocki and Volodymyr Zelensky on December 19 in Warsaw. The details of the planned visit are being arranged. The main topics of the talks, which will take place in Warsaw, will concern security issues, economic matters, and historical issues,” he wrote on social media.
Visit to Poland
A few days earlier – at a press conference in Warsaw ahead of President Karol Nawrocki’s departure for Latvia – presidential minister Marcin Przydacz was asked whether it was known when the meeting of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine would take place.
The head of the Bureau of International Policy (BPM) emphasized at the time that no date had yet been set.
“Today I spoke with the Ukrainian side; we are in ongoing contact. Diplomatic channels are not only open, but exceptionally active in this context,” the minister added.
“We already know that President Zelensky has responded positively to President Nawrocki’s invitation and will come to Warsaw,” he noted.
He stressed, however, that the talks between the two presidents would concern, among other things, the security situation, the regional security architecture, the situation at the front, economic issues, as well as “bilateral matters that are important for maintaining or building good-neighborly relations between Warsaw and Kyiv.”