On Tuesday 19 September, Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, defended Warsaw’s decision to impose unilateral restrictions on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products, which Kyiv is challenging at the World Trade Organisation.
Source: European Pravda; …
Rustem Umierov, Ukraine’s Minister of Defence, has summed up the Ramstein-format meeting, saying that he and Ukraine’s partners have agreed to launch an initiative to form a Capabilities Coalition.
Source: Umierov on Facebook
Quote: “The main goal is t…
In his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday 19 September, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the topic of restrictions on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products by individual EU member states.
Source: European Pravda
Details: Zel…
Poland will likely not extend the support for the roughly 1 million Ukrainian refugees it is hosting to the same extent for the following year, Polish government spokesperson Piotr Müller told Polsat News on Sept. 18.Poland has hosted the larges…
Taras Kachka, Deputy Economy Minister and Trade Representative of Ukraine, has said that Ukraine will introduce an embargo on onions, tomatoes, cabbage and apples from Poland in the coming days.
Source: Kachka in an interview with Rzeczpospolita, repor…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved on Tuesday a new procedure for exporting certain types of agricultural products to certain EU member states.
Source: Mykola Solskyi, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, at a meeting of the agric…
The government of Ukraine is ready to introduce a ban on the import of some goods from Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, if these countries do not agree to lift the unilateral ban on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products.
Source: European Pravda, c…
The Ukrainian government offers neighbouring countries a compromise scenario regarding grain exports.
Source: Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Quote: “Our government offers the EU and neighbouring countries a compromise scenario. We have alread…
On Tuesday, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) confirmed that Ukraine had submitted requests for consultations with countries that unilaterally banned the import of Ukrainian agricultural products.
Source: Reuters, citing a WTO representative, as repor…
Poland has no fear of repercussions from the European Union or the World Trade Organisation (WTO) following its decision to unilaterally impose a ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products.
Source: European Pravda, citing Robert Telus, Polish Ag…