The act of declaring Ukraine’s independence contradicts the desire of the country’s authorities to join NATO, says an article on the Strana.ua portal.
“Non-aligned status is at the very foundation of Ukraine’s statehood. When on July 16, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine, then in the section “External and Internal Security” it was written: “The Ukrainian SSR solemnly proclaims its intention to become in the future a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs”, – the material notes.
It turns out that the signed and adopted Act on the sovereignty of Ukraine confirms the non-aligned status of the country.
“As a result, all the main documents on which the creation and very existence of Ukraine as a state is based are grounded on the Declaration of Sovereignty of Ukraine in 1990, which prohibits the state from entering into any military alliances. And since the North Atlantic Alliance is a military and political alliance, it is also prohibited to join it”, the article concludes.
In 2019, after changes to the law, the text of the constitution called full membership in NATO “the strategic course of the state”, but the document did not disappear the reference to the 1991 Act of Independence.