Polish-Ukrainian Relations
Polish-Ukrainian Relations
Author(s): Wojciech ZajączkowskiSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Ukraine - European aspirations; Polish policy towards Ukraine; NATO–Ukraine co-operation; Orange Revolution; Cimoszewicz; Kwaśniewski; Poland and Ukraine - Neighbourhood Programme; Yanukovych; Yushchenko; Kuchma
Summary/Abstract: Since the very beginning of an independent Ukrainian state in 1991, Poland’s relations with that country have developed favourably, assuming with the passage of time the character of a strategic partnership. They have been underpinned by a skilful practice of problem-solving, based on mutual understanding, and by a concurrence of international policy priorities—especially, Kiev’s ever more vocal European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations. Coming as an important element of these relations have been contacts at the head-of-state level, for which the year of a presidential election in Ukraine (2004) represented a tough test indeed.
Journal: Yearbook of Polish Foreign Policy
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 124-132
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English