Poland will temporarily suspend purchases of Ukrainian grain as imports have caused problems with prices on the domestic market, Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus has said, Polish Radio reports.
"The Ukrainian side has proposed to severely limit, and at the moment even completely stop the supply of grain to Poland for some time. We are not talking about transit - it will be closely monitored," Telus said at a joint briefing with his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Solskyy.
He thanked Ukraine for willingness to solve this problem together.
"We will probably meet on Friday (14 April). We will sign a document that will define what we we have agreed upon today. It will be a document that will be implemented jointly by the Ukrainian and Polish sides," Telus added.
Solskyy, in turn, specified that Ukraine would halt exports of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds to Poland until the new season.
"We are counting on the most constructive position of the Polish side during the transit of Ukrainian grain to Polish ports and ports of other EU countries," the Ukrainian minister said.
Earlier, Henryk Kowalczyk, the deputy prime minister, minister of agriculture and rural development of Poland, who had been in office since October 2021, resigned in protest against the situation with imports of Ukrainian grain.