"I would like to believe that we will be able to count on the support of [our] (...) allies in pursuing claims from Germany for Polish losses suffered during the Second World War."
In a special statement, the Marshal of the Sejm (eq. to the Speaker of the House) replied to the reaction of the Israeli embassy to the adoption of the amendment to the administrative procedure.
In a statement published on the website of the Sejm, the Speaker of this House, Elżbieta Witek, emphasized that she was surprised to receive "international standards violating pressure" from diplomatic representations of the United States and the State of Israel on Polish authorities in connection with the work on the amendment adopted by the Sejm at the last session.
"The pressure is all the weirder as it is directed at Poland, a victim of World War II, and not its perpetrator, and completely ignoring the fact that since World War II, German law has not developed and introduced any mechanisms enabling claims for losses to victims of war and heirs of victims from countries such as Poland "- Witek pointed out.
Witek explained that the solutions adopted by the Polish parliament in the amendment to the Code of Administrative Procedure equally protect both Polish and Jewish victims of German crimes and their heirs against fraud and abuse that occurred as a result of the lack of binding regulations. That includes the latest fraud scheme called 'wild re-privatization.'
She also pointed out that the amendment to the Code of Administrative Procedure passed by an overwhelming majority and supported by the opposition, without a single vote against it.
Concluding her statement, Marshal Witek stressed that actions taken by diplomatic missions of foreign countries aimed at influencing the legislative process in Poland were illegitimate and in contradiction with the Vienna Convention of 1961 and going far beyond the diplomatic protocol and good customs.
"Nevertheless, I received with some satisfaction the interest of US and Israeli diplomatic missions in the fate of the victims of German crimes. I would like to believe that we will be able to count on the support of these allies in pursuing claims from Germany for Polish losses suffered during the Second World War," - concluded Elżbieta Witek.
