Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba considers it necessary to start thinking about the Ukrainian-Polish Alliance within the European Union and have a "real conversation" about how Ukraine and Poland are going to solve bilateral problems on the way to the EU.

“I think that what we should talk about, what we should already start thinking about, is a Ukrainian-Polish alliance within the European Union. Because we will be two very strong players. We will make Poland stronger, and Poland will make us stronger. We should not play the game of balancing ourselves with the Franco-German alliance or any other alliance in Europe,” Kuleba said in an interview with the Polish Uklad Sil edition.

According to the minister, it is necessary to start a real conversation about how Ukraine and Poland are going to solve bilateral problems on the way to the EU, because “what is happening now with these trucks and grain exports is disappointing.”

“It shouldn’t be happening, but we need to find ways and mechanisms to prevent it. The deeper we get into the accession talks, the more such issues will come up from different sides. Poles and Ukrainians must prevent such situations from turning into problems and resolve them quickly and amicably, since we have already failed to prevent them from occurring,” Kuleba noted.

He also added that it is time to start talking about what Ukraine and Poland will do together in the EU.

“What will be our contribution to shaping Europe? Because when enlargement happens, both the Western Balkans and the whole of Eastern Europe will be part of the same political project, the European political project, except for Belarus. For the first time in history, the whole of Europe, from Lisbon to Kyiv, will live as one. Ukrainians and Poles will be part of this great project and will have a role to play. This is the kind of strategic discussion and partnership that I believe we must seek,” the foreign minister explained.