MSZ viceminister met his counterpart in Moscow

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSZ) Vice-minister Marek Ziółkowski met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Titov in Moscow on Friday for a political consultation. The meeting lasted about four hours. “The talks were businesslike character. I clearly stressed our readiness to conduct dialogue with the Russian side," Ziółkowski said after the talks, as quoted by the Polish foreign ministry. One of the topic tackled was Poland's demand that Russia return the wreckage of the presidential plane that crashed in Smoleńsk in 2010. Moscow replied that the return of the wreckage would be possible "after the completion of its investigation". The Polish MSZ declared ahead of the meeting that it wanted to discuss bilateral matters such as political relations, economic cooperation and the functioning of an institute of Polish-Russian dialogue. MSZ head Witold Waszczykowski said in an interview with Polish Radio on Wednesday that the Polish delegation wanted to discuss all these matters, "however,  the Russians are obviously the hosts, and thus they will be regulating the time and progression of the talks." Titov commented on the same day that Moscow is ready to discuss matters with the Polish government if it may bring about changes from the status quo. "Signs have appeared, that the new government in Warsaw wants to bring in new ideas." he added, cited by TASS agency. "If that is indeed the case, then naturally we are ready to listen to those ideas."