New Polish ambassador to Prague: The agreement on Turów will be in January
The new ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Czech Republic, Mirosław Jasński, stated that a final agreement between Prague and Warsaw on the Turów mine would be reached at the next January meeting of negotiators. According to server He told Rzecza the ambassador in an interview with Radio Wrocław.
Jasiński emphasized that he was “optimistic” about Turow and that “there was probably nothing to discuss” anymore. According to his information from the new Czech government, there is an absolute will to finally end the dispute.
According to the ambassador, the agreement between Prague and Warsaw should be expected in the second half of January. “I think we are talking about one meeting, about negotiations that will last,” he said, adding that if the planned meeting took place in Prague, in his opinion, the first point on which the parties would agree would be that does not leave the room until the agreement is signed.
Miroslaw Stanislaw Jasiński, a diplomat, screenwriter and former Duke of Wrocław, took office in Prague this week. Former Polish Ambassador Barbara Ćwiorová ended last June. She was dismissed by President Andrzej Duda on charges of bullying and discriminating against subordinates. The embassy was then headed by Antoni Wręga.
Sixty-year-old Jasiński served in the anti-communist opposition, during his studies at the University of Wrocław he established contacts with people from Charter 77. He was one of the co-founders of the Polish-Czechoslovak Solidarity, in which dissidents from both countries cooperated. At the beginning of the 1990s, he worked at the Polish Embassy in the Czech Republic, and from 2001 to 2007 he headed the Polish Institute in Prague. Until now, he was the head of the Wrocław City Gallery.