Posted on 10/15/22
| News Source: i24
'We are ready to welcome (Israeli) groups even from tomorrow,' the Polish foreign minister clarifies
Poland's foreign ministry is preparing to summon Israel's ambassador for Monday, a Polish deputy minister said on Friday, after the diplomat criticized the government for not allowing student trips from Israel to visit Holocaust memorial sites in Poland.
In July, Poland and Israel vowed to improve relations that had deteriorated after Warsaw introduced a law last year limiting the ability of Jews to recover World War Two properties, saying they would mutually restore ambassadors.
Holocaust education trips for Israeli students to Poland had been suspended earlier this year because armed guards accompanied the students on the trips, a Polish foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed to Reuters.
"I regret that Ambassador Yacov Livne has chosen to communicate with Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry through the media and public speeches - in addition misleading the public as to why the trips are not taking place," Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski tweeted on Friday.