After the talks, Morawiecki told reporters that sanctions must be real and concrete to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
The Polish PM emphasised the need for a ban on energy imports from Russia.
He said: “Russia hasn’t attacked Ukraine with half-measures. It has attacked with its army, which commits regular war crimes. That's why we need to cut off the oxygen to this war - the money from the oligarchs, from oil, gas and other goods.”
Morawiecki noted that with the launch of the Baltic Pipe pipeline to Norway, in half a year Poland will be independent from Russian gas “for the first time in decades.”
The Polish PM stressed that the European Union sought to give Ukraine hope “for a quick reconstruction of an independent, sovereign, democratic Ukrainian state.”
Meanwhile, Nehammer stressed Austria’s opposition to the Russian invasion and thanked Poland and the Polish people for providing assistance to refugees fleeing the Russian assault on Ukraine.
“Thank you so much for this,” the chancellor said.
Morawiecki continues his diplomatic drive in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which was launched on February 24.
On Tuesday, the Polish PM met his counterparts from fellow Visegrad Group countries (Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) as well as the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London, before heading to Oslo for talks with the Norwegian head of government Jonas Gahr Støre.
Poland on Wednesday reported it had admitted 1,330,000 people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP