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"Mr President, EU integration is passing through a series of phases. As a result of implementation of the Schengen Agreement, another group of states will enter the area which border restrictions and controls have been lifted. We welcome this, as a considerable proportion of Poland’s eastern border is also an EU border.
The entry into force of the Schengen provisions has obliged on Poland to carry out extra controls on this border. I am thinking particularly of the border with Ukraine, a state that is becoming an important EU partner since its democratic and economic transition. Poland and Ukraine are linked by centuries of history as neighbours. Today we need especially close contacts and cooperation between our citizens and our peoples.
We must therefore create good conditions and make it convenient for people crossing the Ukrainian-Polish, border – that is, the Ukrainian-EU border – while keeping unnecessary administrative requirements and costs to a minimum. This should not be a border of division, but one of neighbourly cooperation – a border that in future will persist only formally, on paper, when Ukraine becomes integrated into the EU – and let us hope that it will."@en1
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