WARSAW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – fifteenth October, 2022) Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne has been summoned by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs over his statements concerning the safety of Israeli pupil delegations in Poland.
Poland and Israel are in disagreement over the protection of Israeli pupil teams visiting Holocaust memorial websites in Poland. Israel insists that its armed guards ought to accompany the scholars on the journeys, whereas Warsaw maintains that it isn’t crucial.
On Thursday, Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne mentioned throughout a commemoration of an rebellion at Nazi extermination camp Sobibor that it was not doable for Israeli college students to go to such memorials as a result of selections made by the Polish overseas ministry.
“I regret that Ambassador @YacovLivne has chosen to communicate with @MSZ_RP (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) through the media and public speeches – in addition misleading the public as to why the trips are not taking place,” Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski mentioned on social media on Friday, commenting on Livne’s remarks.
Jablonski added that, “to clarify the situation, he (Livne) will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.”
The Polish deputy overseas minister emphasised that his nation was able to welcome Israeli pupil teams, however with out armed safety.
In the summer time of 2021, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a controversial legislation affecting, amongst different issues, the restitution rights of Jewish individuals, who suffered throughout World War II. In August, then-Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid introduced the recall of the ambassador in Warsaw after the legislation got here into pressure. Afterwards the Polish Foreign Ministry mentioned that it could take symmetrical steps in response to the recall of the Israeli ambassador.
In July of this 12 months, Duda introduced that Poland and Israel had initiated the method of normalizing relations between the 2 international locations, and would mutually restore ambassadors.
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