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Poland wants a stronger NATO eastern flank

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John Beauchamp 22.07.2014 13:05
  • Poland wants a stronger NATO eastern flank. Michał Kubicki interviews presidential advisor Roman Kuźniar.
Roman Kuźniar, a foreign policy advisor to President Komorowski, sums up in an exclusive interview with reporter Michał Kubicki the president’s message to his counterparts from eight European countries meeting in Warsaw, Tuesday.

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Presidents, from left: the Czech Republic - Milos Zeman, Bulgaria - Rosen Plevneliyew, Lithuania - Dalia Grybauskaite, Romania - Traian Basescu, Poland - Bronisław Komorowski, Estonia - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvia - Andris Berzins, Hungary - Janos Ader and Slovakia - Andrej Kiska during a high-level meeting in Warsaw's Presidential Palace ahead of a NATO summit in Newport later this year. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

President Komorowski is meeting heads of state from the Baltic states, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, Tuesday.

Kuźniar admits, however, that these countries do not speak in one voice with regards to Russia.

“Bulgaria – because of its long-standing traditional links with Russia; Budapest, currently in disagreement with the EU, is trying to find another political space for itself; Poland and the Baltic states are more aware of the consequences if we tolerate the current situation,” he says.

Kuźniar sounds pessimistic as to the EU’s response to the political crisis, despite overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777.

“I don’t think that what happened in Ukraine a few days ago may push the EU towards a more severe position vis-a-vis Russia. […] I hope though that the West will be more courageous in helping Ukraine to stop the Russian intervention,” mooted Kuźniar.

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