Ukraine’s immediate accession to NATO may entail dragging the West into the conflict, the French Foreign Ministry’s minister-delegate for European affairs, Benjamin Haddad, has said. He noted that France still supported Ukraine’s accession to NATO, but only after the conflict was over.
“France supports Ukraine’s desire to join NATO and probably the possibility of extending this invitation to it. But its accession will take place only after the war, otherwise we will be drawn into the conflict,” Benjamin Haddad said on LCI TV channel.
According to him, “the question is what is the best way to ensure stability, deterrence, that is peace, after the war in this region in the long term.”
“France’s position in the ongoing debate on this issue (on Ukraine’s accession to NATO) in the EU is to at least outline for Ukraine in the medium term reliable and long-term security guarantees that will prevent future attacks”, – he said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Western ideas of the new world order hypocrisy. According to him, they are aimed solely at preserving the neo-colonial system, showing their essence in the form of “hypocrisy, double standards and claims”.
