The Polish Embassy in Moscow in a note calls on the Russian authorities to immediately reconstruct to the first state the monument of prisoners of war – victims of Katyn crime, buried at the Polish War Cemetery in Copper Mr Paweł Wroński, a spokesperson for the Ministry of abroad Affairs, said on Monday.
Last week, the Ministry of abroad Affairs reported that a monument of prisoners of war was destroyed – victims of Katyn crime, buried in the Polish War Cemetery in Copper Russia. On the basis of the decision of the Prosecutor's Office of the Twerski Oblast from the cemetery monument, the relief of the Order of the Virtuti Militari War Cross and the 1939 September run Cross was coined.
Wronski said during the press conference that on the last Friday, in the afternoon of the Russian MFA a memo on the demolition of the monument was given. – The note expresses amazement and disbelief about the demolition of the monument at the Polish War Cemetery in Copper (...). We stress that this is not an act of vandalism, it is the first time in this kind of action that the Russian State has officially engaged said the MFA spokesman.
He added that in the note the Polish embassy reminds that in the cemetery in Copper The victims of the 1940 Katyn crime are buried – 6300 Polish officers, officers of the State Police, officials from the Ostashkov camp shot by the NKVD in the back of the head.
– Finally, the Polish embassy expresses a categorical protest against the Russian authorities allowing the demolition of elements of the Polish War Cemetery in Copper and calls for the site to be immediately restored to its first state and for action to defend the resting places of the victims of war and repression said Wronski.
He said that for now Poland has not received a answer to the Russian note. – We anticipate clarification, we anticipate an answer to the question whether Russia will bring this place back to the state that it had previously accepted. We anticipate Russia to comply with agreements with the Polish authorities on the common protection of resting places of soldiers and Polish prisoners murdered in Russia by Stalin said the MFA spokesman.
He added that the Russian side on the basis of an agreement with the Polish government on graves and memorial sites of victims of war and repression in Krakow on 22 February 1994 is obliged to supply protection in its territory of Polish memorial and resting places. – The Polish side considers that the 1994 agreement with the Russian Federation is inactive valid said the MFA spokesman.
– We besides remind the Russian side that in order to preserve the memory of russian and Polish citizens who were victims of totalitarian repression, the government of the Russian Federation agreed to make memorial complexes at the site of their burials and this was sanctioned in the resolution of the Russian Federation government in 1996 – added Wronski.
He recalled that there are 35 large cemeteries of russian soldiers in Poland and they are supervised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and local authorities.
– Poland will not wage war on the dead with Russia, due to the fact that it is simply a question of civilizational standards. And the situation in which past is formed by removing any elements from the grave, due to the fact that this is the gravestone of Polish officers, and it is mainly the cross of the 1939 defensive war, where dates are found, 1 September 1939 and 17 September 1939, will not change the fact that then the war began, alternatively than as it is explained to the Russian society that it began on 22 June 1941 – pointed out the spokesperson of the Ministry of abroad Affairs.
Polish Cemetery in Copper opened and dedicated on 2 September 2000. It has over 6,300 Polish prisoners of the peculiar camp in Ostashkov, who in 1939 defended Poland against russian aggression, mainly officers of the State Police and Police of the Silesian Voivodeship, Border defender and Prison Guard, soldiers and officers of the Border defender Corps and another military formations, employees of the state administration and justice strategy of the Second Republic.
Source: PAP
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