POLAND: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko meets with his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko met with his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski on Friday (April 27) in Warsaw. The presidents signed a partnership agreement on bilateral plans to improve co-operation and in particular infrastructure within the two countries ahead of the 2012 European Football Championships. Yushchenko said that governments will give Europe an example of mutual cooperation between two nations. He emphasized the fact that having one country in the European Union and one outside it, would not matter. Poland strongly supports Ukraine's application for membership to the EU. Yushchenko's visit also included a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Wisla Displacement of 1947. The displacement saw the forced re-location of some 140, 000 people of mostly Ukrainian ethnicity from the South Eastern parts of Poland, near the Ukrainian border to the northwestern region of the country, reclaimed following World War II. Yushchenko's visit also included talks with leaders of the Ukrainian community living in Poland, and a short Ukrainian orthodox mass in the Presidential Chapel.

ITN Source | April 30, 2007

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