"Under no circumstances. There can be no Peace Council with Mr. Putin," Ryszard Petru stated on Radio ZET when asked if President Nawrocki should join the Peace Council.

"We have our own interests as Europe [...] how do you imagine [...] the President of Poland sitting between President Putin and Lukashenka, or next to Lukashenka?" he continued.

"There should be a common stance of the European Union minus Orbán [...] if the European Union does not join as a community and a significant majority of countries on these fundamental issues, then this Peace Council will not be taken seriously. Therefore, it is impossible to create a Peace Council based on the US, Russia, Belarus, and with a leader who unleashed a war and, what's more, does not want to end it," he went on to say.

"This is a strange concept, it's meant to weaken the UN, it's also meant to break European solidarity, but paradoxically, it creates a sense of the need for such European solidarity," he added.