WARSAW, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Saturday that Ukrainian official Svyatoslav Sheremeta was banned from entering the country.
Sheremeta, who is in charge of Ukraine's Interdepartmental Commemorations Commission, tried to cross the border in Medyka in southeast Poland on Saturday noon with a German visa.
According to Elzbieta Pikor, spokeswoman for the local Polish Border Guard, Sheremeta was refused to enter as the register of people who are not welcome in the country.
Polish News Agency (PAP) reported that the decision to bar Sheremeta was the result of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance having in April issued a ban on the search and exhumation of remains of Polish war victims on Ukrainian territory.
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has announced recently that the Polish government intends to revise its policy towards Ukraine over history. He emphasized that people representing anti-Polish views should be banned from entering the country.
In relation to Sheremeta's barring of entry, Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Pieklo was summoned by the government in Kiev to give some explanations.
Mariana Beca, spokeswoman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, tweeted: "we urgently summon Poland's ambassador to Ukraine in connection with the refusal to grant entry to Poland to the secretary of the State Inter-departmental Commission, Svyatoslav Sheremeta".
