Only Ukraine and NATO member states will decide when Ukraine is ready to become a member of the Alliance, Russia has no veto on this issue. This was stated by the Alliance Secretary General following the results of the NATO ministerial meeting in Riga Jens Stoltenberg.
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“Only Ukraine and 30 NATO member states must decide when Ukraine is ready to join the Alliance. Russia has no veto right on this issue and has no right to control its neighbors,” he said.
The same opinion was expressed in Riga by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba, reported LIGA.net in the press service of the department.
“Russia cannot prevent Ukraine from getting closer to NATO and does not have the right to vote in relevant discussions. Any proposals by Russia to discuss with NATO or the United States so-called guarantees that the Alliance will not expand eastward are illegal,” Kuleba said.
Earlier today, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin statedthat Russia wants “legal guarantees” that Ukraine will not enter the North Atlantic Alliance, and called on the NATO leadership to begin “substantive negotiations.”
- Yesterday, November 30, the US mission to NATO called on Russia to de-escalation at the border of Ukraine and to negotiations.
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