The fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on the preparation of a diplomatic note on war reparations, informs “Republic”. According to the journal’s findings, Minister Zbigniew Rau has only now commissioned the development of the document. Content work is carried out by the deputy ministers: Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, who is in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for European policy, and Piotr Wawrzyk, who handles legal matters at the ministry.

The note, which will officially include the topic of World War II reparations on the agenda of Polish-German relations, will be ready after the return of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the United States.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is preparing a record on reparations

Rzeczpospolita doubted the cooperation between the two deputy ministers of diplomacy. He reminded that Szynkowski, who wants to replace him after the resignation of Jacek Czaputowicz in 2020, spoke at a meeting with German Minister for European Affairs Anna Lührmann about making a deal with Germany. The document also – according to Szynkowski – regulates the issue of reparations. Dziennik described the postulate as “far-reaching” and wondered if it would ever be included in the official record, which Mateusz Morawiecki and Jarosław Kaczyński would have to personally accept.

We pay attention to the position of the Polish government. Germany’s position is clear: the case has long been legally closed. Poland has also presented this position many times, the last time in 2004.

Anna Lührmann told Rzeczpospolita.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs will cancel the reparations waiver?

On August 22, 1953, the Soviet Union made an agreement with the GDR to close the issue of reparations by Germany. “The next day, namely on August 23, 1953, the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Poland adopted a resolution of the Declaration of the government of the People’s Republic of Poland on war reparations” – recalled in 2006 the then Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga. He cited a fragment of the resolution which stated that “from January 1, 1954, the Polish government will stop paying war indemnities to Poland”.

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Diplomatic records must reflect this agreement. Rzeczpospolita estimated that “undermining all decisions from the communist period could lead Poland into dangerous territory.” Two more aspects are important in planning a diplomatic path to reparations: calendar election and perception of the new Polish ambassador to Germany in the ruling party.

Germany’s ambassador to Poland, Thomas Bagger, said on September 3 that in his opinion, from a legal point of view, the issue of reparations was closed. The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the same thing. The German chancellor also has no doubt that the case is closed.

– I can show, like all previous federal governments, that this issue is finally resolved in international law – said Olaf Scholz in an interview with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (quoted from PAP).

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