Russian, Polish clerics agree to reconcile two nations

Russian and Polish clerics have agreed to draw up a document on the reconciliation of the two nations in a bid to put an end to long-standing tensions in Russian-Polish relations, a press-secretary of the Polish Catholic Bishops Conference has said.

The agreement was reached during a Friday meeting of hieromonk Philip Ryabykh, deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, and the Polish senior cleric, Archbishop Henryk Muszynski, in the Polish capital of Warsaw.

"As representatives of Christian churches, we are strongly concerned with the fact that in modern conditions, despite developed mass media, much animosity and enmity between the two nations still exist," the Russian cleric said.

Muszynski said in his turn there were no obstacles to the reconciliation of Poles and Russians in the present, adding "problems appear when we speak about history."

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