Poland said Tuesday it has been informed by Germany that it does not intend to engage in negotiations on any World War II reparations to Warsaw as Berlin considers the matter closed.
Poland’s Foreign Ministry also said it has turned to the United Nations for support in its efforts to win compensation for some $1.3 trillion of estimated losses suffered under Nazi Germany’s 1939-45 occupation.All along the drawn-out dispute Germany has been insisting the matter was closed by decisions taken during communist times, when Warsaw relinquished seeking reparations. Poland says that was under Moscow’s pressure and not legally binding. It sent an official demand in October.
Poland’s Foreign Ministry said that in an official note of Dec. 28, the government in Berlin said that the “matter of reparations and compensations for wartime losses remains closed and the German government does not intend to open negotiations on the subject.”The ministry vowed to continue its efforts and said that on Tuesday the government addressed U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and other top U.N. officials seeking “cooperation and support” in the efforts to win wartime reparations.
Poland’s right-wing government is dealing with a cost-of-living and energy crisis, and faces general elections in the fall.
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