Polish president wants to be friends with Georgia against Russia
President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski disappointed his Georgian counterpart Mikhail Saakashvili. In an interview with the newspaper “Rzeczpospolita”, he stated the following: “I will not go abroad because only that both wanted the president of Georgia.
Thus, Komorowski actually summed up by an epoch in the foreign policy of Warsaw, when Georgia was considered almost the main strategic ally. This era began with the Georgian “Rose Revolution” and the coming to power of Mikhail Saakashvili, who quickly made friends with the then-Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
Ideological content of this friendship was opposition to Moscow. Security, “the young Georgian democracy” from the “Russian imperialism” has become an obsession for diplomacy, Lech Kaczynski. Not by chance shortly after the outbreak of war in South Ossetia, the Polish president flew to Tbilisi, where he took part in the famous rally on Rustaveli Avenue - in support of Saakashvili. Side by side with Kaczynski at the podium were the leaders of three Baltic republics and Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko. As you can see, all the actors are anti-Russian coalition two years ago - came from the former Soviet Union. All but Kaczynski.
Since then, the hand is changed. In Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, became president, and friends Saakashvili - Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko - have left a deep opposition. Poles after the crash Smolensk revised perception of Russia. Rapid “reset” of relations between Warsaw and Moscow not Mikhail Saakashvili leaves virtually no field for maneuver. If a Polish-Georgian anti-Russian alliance to remove the rod, it turns out: these two countries are not so many and associates.
The election of the President pragmatics Komorowski put everything in its place. Ideologically, the emotional overlap Kaczynski era has ended. Georgia has for Poland to be what it should be - a distant country in the periphery of national interests. And Russia - a key partner and neighbor, with whom, after years of confrontation finally n
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