Poland: We expect concrete solutions from Lithuania

After the meeting in Warsaw of the vice-speaker of the Seimas Gediminas Kirkilas with the vice-Marshal of the Republic of Poland’s Sejm, Poland stated that the next meeting of the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland and Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania will be possible if the change of the course in the Lithuanian authorities’ policy towards Polish minority is  visible.

,,Independently of the political composition of the Lithuanian coalition, Poland awaits from the authorities in Vilnius an actual implementation of the provisions concerning the rights of the Polish minority, resulting from both the international treaties and the Polish-Lithuanian Treaty on amicable relations and neighbourly cooperation from 1994.” – we read in the press release issued by Grzeszczak.

„During the talks the vice-Marshal Eugeniusz Grzeszczak reminded on numerous occasions about our expectations concerning the protection of rights of the Polish minority, resulting from the Polish-Lithuanian Treaty on amicable relations and neighbourly cooperation from 1994. The vice-Marshals also discussed the current situation in Ukraine” – said to zw.lt a member of the Assembly, a parliamentary representative of the Sejm Tadeusz Aziewicz.

Aziewicz stated that the vice-Marshal expressed a hope that soon we will agree upon a date of the next meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland and the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, wherein it will be possible only if a change of the course in the Lithuanian authorities’ policy towards Polish minority is visible.

„We await the implementation of the repeatedly promised, concrete changes leading to an actual improvement of the situation of the Polish minority, which will open a way for a normal cooperation within the Assembly” – emphasised the representative.

On the other hand Kirkilas informed the BNS agency that the next meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland and the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania will take place in Warsaw in October.

The Polish-Lithuanian Treaty envisages i.a. the original spelling of names. The issues left unsolved for years by Lithuania are an obstacle in the normalisation of the relations between Poland and Lithuania.