The Polish foreign Ministry handed a temporary attorney in the Affairs of the Russian Federation protest note
Temporary attorney in the Affairs of the Russian Federation in Poland Yuri Philipson handed a note of protest in connection with the statement of the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin, said Last news press Secretary of the foreign Ministry of Poland Marcin Wojciechowski.
"Temporary attorney in the Affairs of the Russian Federation in Poland was handed a note of protest. The story is about yesterday's comments Mr. Karasin relative to the foreign Minister of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna, " said Wojciechowski.
Speaking on the radio station " Moscow Speaking ", Karasin in particular, said that the Polish foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna should think about public statements that it was demeaning to the diplomatic service of Poland.
Prior to that, head of the Polish Ministry of foreign Affairs stated that the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, as if it was released Ukrainians, because this operation was carried out by forces of the First Ukrainian front. According to the Minister, there were Ukrainian soldiers in the January day and they opened the gates of the camp and they liberated the camp ".
This phrase has caused a wave of indignation in Russia and in the West. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century said that trying to play on some nationalist feelings in this situation absolutely blasphemous and obscene. In the Russian foreign Ministry noted that Auschwitz was liberated by the troops of the red Army, which fought heroically citizens of all nationalities, and Everybody knows it.