Warsaw hopes for juridical reconciliation between Russia, "Katyn families"
MOSCOW. Dec 18 (Interfax) - Warsaw has called on Moscow to meet claims of the Katyn victims' families with the complete disclosure of classified archive files, the transfer of case files and the provision of legal rehabilitation of the deceased.
"I think we would not have to sue each other at international courts if the reasonable claims of the Katyn families were met," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in an exclusive interview with Interfax.
"The Polish government would welcome juridical reconciliation between the Katyn families and the Russian Federation. We insist that this must be done for preserving reasonable conditions of this reconciliation. That is, archive files must be disclosed fully, all case files of executed persons must be transferred and victims must be rehabilitated pursuant to Russian laws," the minister said.
"Families of deceased officers who are seeking justice in Strasbourg primarily expect full disclosure of documents and legal rehabilitation. As far as I know, the Katyn families make no financial claims," Sikorski said.
Poland also seeks information about the round-up of August 1945 dubbed by Poland as the Little Katyn. "Primarily, we expect access to information about what happened to those people, not compensations," the Polish minister remarked.
