According to unofficial information, the Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz decided to halt the evacuation of nearly one hundred people of Polish origin from war-torn eastern Ukraine.
As reported by “Polish the Times”, Prime Minister Kopacz appealed planned for tomorrow evacuated after persuasion Interior Minister Theresa Piotrowska. The head of the Interior Ministry reportedly frightened Mrs Prime Minister, that the authorization to evacuate dozens of people from Donbass trigger a wave of similar requests from all over Ukraine and other countries, a war zone.
According to the decision Ewa Kopacz very unhappy to be the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Parliament Speaker which has already begun intensive preparations for evacuation.
– agreed with the administration of the Ukrainian simplified formula for issuing passports traveling and other organizations that evacuation procedures, eg. transport security, the activities of the Ukrainian police and local administration. After the decision of the Prime Minister Kopacz came an idiot – says Foreign Ministry official newspaper anonymously.
According to official information, the evacuation was postponed, no mention of its revocation.
– The text in the “Polish the Times” This speculation, the Prime Minister did not take any decision to suspend the evacuation, everything is going according to plan. – Iwona government spokesman said Sulik in TVN24. – Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the whole, and there please ask – she said.
In an interview with tvn24.pl spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak Interior Ministry stressed that the ministry is working actively to help the Poles in Ukraine.
– The minister never dissuade the Prime Minister from the idea of evacuation of our compatriots. As a ministry, we are prepared to accept the Poles. For the same issue evacuation corresponds to the Foreign Ministry, whose messengers are in place – Wozniak said.
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The evacuation was initially scheduled for December 29, due to, among others, the relationships of people living in Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts where regular ongoing fight against separatists supported by Moscow. Polish wants to go close to 100 people.
With the area covered by the conflict had to be evacuated people of Polish origin, having the Polish Charter or which could otherwise documented way to confirm their Polish ancestry, and their immediate family members.
On the Polish consulate in Kharkiv on Wednesday morning, yet there were two messages dot. evacuation – December 18 and December 21. You could read them, that those who wanted to go to Polish, should report the willingness to go no later than 26 December 2014. President of one of the Polish-American organizations, who will pass it then the Consulate General in Kharkiv.
Statement of December 18, contained information that the departure from Kharkiv to Polish will be held on December 29. In a later communication there is no date.
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said that the ministry is ready at any time to evacuate people of Polish origin from Donbas. – We are in full readiness. We work and we are in constant contact on this issue with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – stressed.
Hope for the fastest trip like no secret of Poles living in conflict areas. – We hope that we will have some peace of mind that we will have a chance for a peaceful sky above him. Please ceasefire, but still continues shooting, explosions. We are preparing for the trip. Our thoughts are on the way. We collect things, some fired from work. We expect that the New Year will be celebrated in Poland – said Valentina old girl from the Polish Cultural Society of Donbas.
She informed that the Poles living in the region have a signal from the consulate that December 29 will be ready to go to Polish.
– According to the information provided the foundation for three Polish organizations in the Donbass, volunteered to evacuate nearly 90 people. Some of them began to sell their belongings, some prepare for the transport of sick parents. Today we remain in uncertainty about their fate – emphasizes Michael Dworczyk turn with the board the Freedom and Democracy Foundation, which sent PAP message.
Last week, the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry informed members of the parliamentary committee. Communication with Poles abroad, it takes verification of Polish origin who want to escape from falling fighting in eastern Ukraine; it’s about a hundred people; ad-hoc grants them gifts, in Poland there waiting for them to help – assured.
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