The Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and the US Secretary of State, in a joint statement on 7 May, the eve of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, regretted efforts to falsify history. They target Russia without naming it.
Several high-ranking Russian officials have recently accused Poland of contributing to the outbreak of the conflict and Russia has repeatedly tried to downplay the German-Soviet pact.
“Manipulating the historical events that led to the Second World War and to the division of Europe in the aftermath of the war constitutes a regrettable effort to falsify history.”, the ministers said. They recall that the end of the war “did not bring freedom to all of Europe” and that “the central and eastern part of the continent remained under the rule of communist regimes for almost 50 years”.
“Lasting international security, stability and peace requires genuine and continued adherence to international law and norms, including the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states”, the ten countries added. They therefore call on the international community to firmly reject the concept of spheres of influence and to insist on the equality of all sovereign nations.
See the statement: https://bit.ly/3dsQorQ (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)