The senator asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide a note on reparations addressed to the German government, upon receipt of which the commission will continue to work on a resolution – commented Senate Marshal Tomasz Grodzki on the words of PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk that the PO wants to intervene in the struggle for reparations.

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The Senate Foreign Affairs and EU Committee will take the first reading of a draft resolution put forward by PiS on seeking compensation by Poland for damages caused to Germany during World War II. A resolution with the same content was adopted by the Sejm on 14 September. The Senate draft called for the German government to “firmly assume political, historical, legal and financial responsibility” for all the consequences inflicted on Poland and its citizens as a result of the outbreak of World War II by the Third Reich.

“I think we’ll find out his motive soon enough.”

KO Senator Marek Borowski applied to delay work on the draft resolution, and a majority of Senate committee members supported the motion.

Mularczyk, who, as announced, will become deputy secretary of state – was asked Wednesday in an interview on PAP Studio about delaying Senate committee work on the draft resolution, noting that “something has changed in the position of the Civic Platform, something new has happened.” and the Civic Platform decided that, however, it would hinder the Polish government from pursuing claims for reparations from Germany.

I think we’ll find out his motives soon, but this is shocking and chilling news to me

– added.

“Let Minister Mularczyk gracefully beat himself in the chest.”

Asked at a press conference on Wednesday about this MP PiS statement, Grodzki said that the Senate “worked diligently and it was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Senate sent for review, which was addressed to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany.”

Before making decisions and resolutions, senators just want to get to know these records

– added.

May Minister Mularczyk graciously beat himself in the chest. When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends us this note, the commission will continue its work. What will be final, of course, depends on the will of the senators

– said the Marshal of the Senate, adding that “Mr. Mularczyk’s insinuation is, to put it mildly, completely unfounded.”

Justifying a formal request to postpone consideration of the draft resolution, Senator Borowski said that the chairman of the Civil Coalition club, Borys Budka, had sent a letter to the Foreign Office requesting access to diplomatic notes sent to Berlin regarding reparations. .

We wanted to know if and what kind of reparations the Polish government was asking from the Federal Republic of Germany. What negotiation path is proposed by the Polish side, is this report (on reparations – PAP) attached there. We are also interested in the answer, because duplicating the same resolution is not very effective. We want to know what’s in these notes and what the German government’s response will be

– he says.

On September 1, presented a report on the losses suffered by Poland as a result of the German aggression and occupation during World War II, which shows a total loss of over PLN 6 billion 220 billion PLN 609 million. The report was prepared by a team led by Mularczyk during the previous parliamentary term.

In early October, Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau signed a diplomatic note on reparations addressed to the German side.

Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Piotr Wawrzyk, then explained that the note addressed to the German government was an implementation of the Sejm resolution, so the words used in it “correspond to those used in the Sejm resolution”. He noted that in the original draft of the Sejm resolution, there was the word reparation, but in the adopted resolution there was no such word.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, referring to a note sent by Poland, stated during her last visit to Warsaw that “the issue of reparations is closed from the point of view of the federal government.”

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