For NATO membership, Kiev still needs to pass two intermediate stages: to receive an action plan for membership and a consensus decision of all member states, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba
According to him, there is no such procedure as “applying for membership”, instead the country has to go through “a certain path”. The first stage has been passed – at the Bucharest summit in 2008, the alliance promised to accept Ukraine one day, the minister assured.
“Now there are two intermediate stages. The first is getting a membership action plan, this is an issue that needs a consensual solution, an issue that the president is constantly violating before the member states of the alliance, I am violating it. The time has come to fulfil the promise made at the Bucharest summit. The second one is a consensus decision of the alliance member states that Ukraine is accepted into NATO”, – Kuleba said on air of Channel 5.
At the same time, the Ukrainian foreign minister stressed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has an established conviction about the importance of the country’s membership in the EU and NATO.