Black clouds gather over Parliamentary Speaker Sikorski. (During a press conference on Tuesday Sikorski blamed faulty memory)

Poland’s Parliamentary Speaker Radoslaw Sikorski may lose his job after comments (retracted on Tuesday afternoon) he offered to the American news website Politico that Poland had received an offer from Russia to conquer and divide Ukraine back in 2008.
In a later interview for the daily Gazeta Wyborcza Sikorski [a former Foreign Minister] said he did not personally hear Russian President Vladimir Putin present such a proposal to Poland’s PM Donald Tusk, but that it was later reported to him. Sikorski said that back in 2008 the idea sounded surreal.

During a press conference on Tuesday Sikorski blamed faulty memory for his earlier comments and said that no eye-to-eye meeting Putin-Tusk took place in Moscow in February 2008.

• Main opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss Sikorski from the position of Parliamentary Speaker following the Politico publication and his later statements. Other caucuses also mull filing such a motion.

• PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Wednesday that Sikorski’s case cannot be closed because “irresponsible people cannot hold high positions in the Polish public life”.

Ruling party Civic Platform (PO) is against dismissing Sikorski over his comments for Politico. Still, some PO politicians have doubts concerning the issue, while junior coalition partner Polish People’s Party (PSL) has not yet taken a stance on the matter.
Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz reportedly discussed potential dismissal of Sikorski with her predecessor Tusk, still the leader of PO.

• Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski assessed Sikorski comments for Politico as harmful, albeit he stressed no damage was done in terms of Polish foreign policy, Komorowski said Wednesday.

The matter of Sikorski’s comments for Politico was raised during yesterday sitting of the National Security Council (RBN). Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, when asked about Ukrainian reaction to Politico publication and later statements by Sikorski, said there was none.
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23/10/14
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