Polish, CEE FMs to visit Mariupol
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
15.01.2019 13:20
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz and his counterparts from other Central and Eastern European countries were on Tuesday set to visit Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine.
Poland's Jacek Czaputowicz. Photo: MSZ (CC BY-NC 2.0)
The region is “affected by an ongoing Russian aggression,” the Polish foreign ministry said on its website.
The joint visit in the Ukrainian city was expected to “reiterate Poland’s commitment to strengthening Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders,” the foreign ministry’s website added.
Czaputowicz was to be joined in Mariupol by his Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Czech and Ukrainian counterparts.
The foreign ministers were set to meet the Mariupol city authorities and observers from an OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.
The foreign ministry in Warsaw added that Czaputowicz’s visit to Mariupol “falls several weeks after the November incident with the Russian fleet at the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea, which resulted in the seizure of Ukrainian vessels.”
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Source: IAR, msz.gov.pl