Robert Telus announced the new arrangement at a press conference in Warsaw, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Earlier in the day, the Polish farm minister spoke via video link with his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Solskyi and Lithuania’s Kęstutis Navickas about the transit of Ukrainian grain through Poland and Lithuania, according to officials.
Telus told reporters: “We have agreed on an important matter. As of tomorrow, the checks on the Ukrainian grain travelling through Lithuania, will be moved from the Ukrainian-Polish border to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda.”
He added it was “a good development when it comes to facilitating transit and creating the solidarity corridor” for Ukrainian grain.
The Polish and Lithuanian farm ministers also discussed a proposal by the European Union’s executive Commission to ban fishing for herring in the Baltic Sea from 2024, the PAP news agency reported.
Such a ban would threaten the livelihoods of Polish fishermen, according to officials.
Poland is joining forces with Baltic and Nordic countries to oppose the plan at a summit of EU leaders later this month, reporters were told.
In early May, the European Commission introduced a ban on the import of wheat, corn, rapeseed, sunflower and sunflower oil from Ukraine to Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, based on an agreement with these countries.
The embargo was eventually extended until September 15, after which date Brussels decided not to prolong it further, the PAP news agency reported.
Poland, Hungary and Slovakia responded by introducing national bans on Ukrainian grain imports.
Ukraine filed a lawsuit against the three countries at the World Trade Organisation, over their grain import bans, according to media reports.
Slovakia and Ukraine have since reached an agreement on the licensing of Ukrainian grain imports, and Kyiv agreed to suspend its WTO lawsuit against Bratislava, the PAP news agency reported.
Tuesday is day 587 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
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Source: PAP, infor.pl