The head of Polish diplomacy, Witold Waszczykowski, said today that there is no doubt that Poland has a moral right to war reparations from Germany and Russia for aggression in 1939. year and occupation, but that this issue is legally unclear, because there is no post-war peace treaty. "From a moral point of view, there is no doubt that we did not receive compensation for the heavy losses and damages we suffered due to the German aggression against Poland and also the Soviet and Russian aggression. From a legal point of view, it is not clear for various reasons. There was no peace treaty also because, to put it briefly, of our meanderings," Waszczykovski told Polish radio station RMF FM. However, the Polish minister emphasized as an indisputable fact that Poland was devastated during the war and that after the Second World War she did not receive any compensation for the gruesome crimes and terrible destruction. "Poland must sit down for a serious conversation with Germany and think together how to get out of the fact that the German aggression of 1939 casts a shadow on Polish-German relations. year and unresolved post-war issues," Vasčikovski said. The head of Polish diplomacy announced that the Polish government is preparing an official statement regarding the issue of reparations from Germany and Russia, which was initiated in July by the leader of the ruling Pravo i Pravda party, Jaroslav Kaczynski. "When we waited 70 years, those few weeks or months will not kill us. It is worth hurrying, however, because the last victims damaged in the Second World War are leaving," Vasčikovski said. That Poland has a moral right to insist on reparations from Germany was reiterated by Prime Minister Beata Šidlo in an interview with the right-wing pro-government weekly Sjeći. The analysis bureau of the Sejm of the Polish Parliament is working on an analysis of whether Poland can raise the issue of reparations, specifically from Germany in the light of international law and what kind of compensation other countries that also suffered terrible destruction during the German occupation received. The German Bundestag has already made such an analysis regarding the sudden request that Germany pay reparations, although immediately after the war it was agreed that Poland would receive 15 percent of the war reparations that Germany paid to the Soviet Union. In 1953, Poland renounced those reparations in order not to endanger the economic development of communist East Germany. The lawyers of the German parliament stated that in 1953, Poland when reparations were waived, it was sovereign and thus internationally recognized, regardless of the fact that today's authorities in Warsaw claim that it could not be sovereign as a satellite of the Soviet Union. Also, according to that analysis of 28 In August, which was seen by the Polish newspaper Gazeta Viborča, the voluntary renunciation of reparations was repeated during the signing of the Agreement on Definitive German-Polish Borders on the Oder and Nisa in 1970. years. Germany's last argument is that the claim is legally time-barred, since more than half a century has passed since the end of World War II. "Your chances are zero," commented the deputy head of the Foreign Policy Committee of the upper house of the Russian parliament, Vladimir Jabarov, on Poland's chances of receiving reparations and compensation from either Germany or Russia for more than seven decades since the end of World War II, Polish media reports. Jabarov warned for the Russian agency RIA-Novosti that after the war Poland received the German territories of East Prussia and that Germany should be dealt with first. He added that according to today's Polish logic, Russia could ask Poland for war reparations and compensation for the fact that the Poles invaded Russia in 1612. or from France for the Napoleonic Wars in 1812. years.
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