Komorowski thanks Yanukovych for help in maintaining Bykivnia Graves Memorial Complex

President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski has thanked the Ukrainian authorities for the development of the Bykivnia Graves National Historical Memorial Complex.

"I would like to thank the Ukrainian authorities and personally Mr. President [Viktor Yanukovych] for hastening [the passing of] all of the necessary resolutions that allowed us to create a cemetery at this place," he said during the ceremony to lay a capsule at the memorial to victims of political repression on Monday.

Komorowski said this memorial united Ukraine, Poland and other nations, reminding them about the price of freedom and human rights.

According to the Polish president, this is a reminder that the future should be based on the truth.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said in turn that it was our duty to remember each victim of political repression.

Of the four memorial complexes erected on the places of execution of Polish and Soviet victims of the NKVD in the 1930s and 1940s, two are located in Ukraine.

A memorial complex in Odesa was opened ten years ago on September 25, 2000.

The Bykivnia Graves memorial complex was opened in 1994.

Another two memorials are located in Russia - in Katyn and in Mednoye.