Poland will lift restrictions on agricultural products from Ukraine after September 15. This was stated by Polish President Andrzej Duda during a press conference in Kyiv, European Pravda reports.
According to him, Ukraine and the EU should return to regular trade without restrictions, which were introduced earlier at the request of Warsaw.
Commenting on the current restrictions on Ukraine's trade with the EU, Duda said he believes it would be advisable to cancel them.
"I hope that these decisions should be canceled as soon as possible," the Polish president said.
The current restrictions are set to expire on September 15, with no plans to lift them early.
Maintaining the restrictions for the next two months is necessary for certain preparations that are already underway, Andrzej Duda added:
"This time is needed to avoid phenomena that have a negative social impact and to develop mechanisms that will allow for the exchange of goods and transit without negative phenomena."
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky added that he had also received confirmation of such plans from the European Commissioner for Trade, Thierry Breton.
"We will see how everything will be unblocked, but he (the commissioner) promised me that there will be no further blocking after September 15," Zelensky said.
Background. Read more about this in Mind's article "Why did the EU extend restrictions on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products?".
As a reminder, Romania is in favor of extending the ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products until the end of the year.