Deputy Secretary General of NATO Mircea Joan said that Ukraine will not join NATO in the near future
“No one is saying that Ukraine will join NATO in the near future, as Kiev needs to carry out a lot of reforms inside the country”, – the NATO representative said.
He also stressed that the alliance must come to a consensus on Ukraine’s accession to NATO, which is currently not the case.
However, he said, “despite this, no third party has the right to veto a decision that is sovereign for the country itself and for the organisation it wants to join”.
“It is entirely up to us”, – Mircea Joan added