Polish foreign affairs ministry summons Russian envoy

On Monday morning, one of the directors of the Eastern Department at the Polish Ministry of the Foreign Affairs received Russia ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreyev amid the controversy regarding his statements expressed in an interview for TVN24 television station on Friday evening. "I regret that I did not made myself clear. I did not mean that Poland was co-responsible for the outbreak of World War II," ambassador Andreyev said after the meeting with the director. In the weekend, he envoy was summoned to the ministry by the minister Grzegorz Schetyna who is currently accompanying President Andrzej Duda at he General Debate of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly In an interview, the Russian envoy said Poland was partly responsible for Nazi Germany invading in 1939 because it had repeatedly blocked the formation of a coalition against Berlin in the run-up to the conflict. Andreyev also said Polish-Russian relations were currently at their worst since 1945 because Poland has chosen to freeze political and cultural contacts. The Polish Ministry of the Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it received the envoy's point of view with "a surprise and anxiety."