Wroński said Poland, as an EU member state, “is in favour of there being no trade in Russian oil" within the bloc.
He added that Trump’s recent remarks “are absolutely consistent with the position of the Polish government.”
Wroński spoke after talks in Helenów, near Warsaw between Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
He told reporters that some EU countries benefited for years from privileged access to Russian crude and should have used that time to diversify supply and reconfigure infrastructure.
“Those years ought to have been spent enabling reversals and alternatives in various installations, so that Europe could rely on sources other than Russian oil,” he said.
Asked whether Sikorski and Wang discussed Trump’s separate idea of tariffs on China, Wroński said there were no concrete outcomes to share.
Any such discussion can only take place at the EU level, he added.
Trump wrote on Saturday on Truth Social, his social media platform, that he had sent a letter to all NATO members and “the whole world,” saying he is ready to impose heavy sanctions on Russia if all allies stop buying Russian oil.
He also argued that tariffs of 50 to 100 percent on Chinese goods, applied by NATO countries, would help end the war in Ukraine by weakening Beijing’s leverage over Moscow.
On Sunday, Trump said European sanctions on Russia were not strict enough and should be tightened before the United States introduces tougher measures.
He added that Europeans are America’s friends, “but they are buying oil from Russia.”
Despite EU sanctions, some member states still import Russian crude via the southern branch of the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline, which is not covered by the oil embargo and supplies Slovakia and Hungary.
A July analysis by the Finnish think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) estimated that the five largest EU importers of Russian fossil fuels that month – Hungary, France, Slovakia, Belgium and Spain – paid Russia about EUR 1.1 billion.
CREA said roughly 67 percent of Russian fossil fuel imports to the EU is natural gas, which is not currently sanctioned, while most of the remainder is oil.
In June, the European Commission proposed a regulation that would phase in a complete ban on Russian natural gas imports, aiming to end EU dependence on Russian gas by 2028.
The plan is now being negotiated in the European Parliament and among member states. It would be decided by qualified majority voting, meaning it does not require unanimity and cannot be vetoed by a single country.
(rt/gs)
Source: PAP