PM skeptical of inviting Putin to Auschwitz anniversary
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he would be “cautious” about inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to next year’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He however stressed that representatives of Russian authorities should be invited.
The organizers of the celebration aim to to invite representatives of all nations that suffered in the Nazi concentration camp, Tusk said. We don’t know how the situation in Ukraine will evolve, he added, and a lot will depend on that.
Opposition party Law and Justice has spoken out against inviting Putin to the anniversary celebration. “Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy is modeled after Stalin and Hitler,” MP Zbigniew Girzyński said, explaining their position.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by Soviet troops on January 25, 1945.
