Polish Foreign Minister does not believe his country was "excluded from discussions" on Ukraine

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski does not consider it a signal of "exclusion from discussions on Ukraine" that Poland was not invited to a meeting of the leaders of the United States, the UK, France and Germany organised by Berlin.

As reported by RMF24, after the meeting of the four leaders – US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz – on the war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East, some commentators in Poland suggested that Warsaw's absence at this meeting meant that it was "out of the diplomatic game" on Ukraine.

Radosław Sikorski disagreed with this thesis while on the air. He noted that the leaders' meeting in Berlin was organised too hastily after the Ramstein meeting at leader level had failed to take place and reiterated that all the participants in the meeting were nuclear powers.

"We are not a nuclear power; we are not a member of the G7 or G20. We are not represented in every format, and this is normal," the Polish Foreign Minister said.

He went on to say that in the case of discussions on Ukraine, Poland's presence is important "for the sake of making better decisions". "Such formats as Minsk or Normandy do not work," Sikorski added.

The minister also said that he did not see this as a signal of deteriorating relations with Germany and reiterated that he had just visited the country. 

Sikorski was asked if any form of truce in the Russian-Ukrainian war had been agreed upon in Berlin, noting that immediately after the summit, Scholz flew to meet with the Turkish president. He replied that from what he knew, the discussion was mainly about the war in the Middle East.

Earlier, the Polish Minister for EU Affairs criticised Scholz for not inviting Poland to the meeting.

After the meeting between the leaders of Germany, the US, the UK and France, it was unofficially reported that the US administration no longer had any fundamental objections to Ukraine's invitation to join NATO.

It also became known that during the conversation, the leaders had failed to reach an agreement on allowing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes with Western weapons on Russian territory.