Germany's foreign Minister spoke out against Ukraine's membership in NATO and the EU

German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke out against Ukraine's membership in NATO and the EU.

" I think a possible partnership relations between Ukraine and NATO, but not the membership, " said Steinmeier in an interview to the magazine.

The head of the German foreign Ministry also considers unrealistic Ukraine's accession to the European Union in the long term, because, in his vision, economic and political modernization of Ukraine is a " project of several generations "." for this reason, today there is no sense to talk about Ukraine's membership in the EU in the distant future, " added Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

the Commissioner of the state Department Jeff the Mini USA on the last working day of the week said that America supports Ukraine's desire to join NATO, but the final decision must take Kiev.

before the press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said in an interview to the British broadcasting Bi-bi-si said that Russia needs " a hundred percent guarantee that no country thinks about the fact that Ukraine joined NATO ". According to Peskov, the gradual accommodation of Commonwealth troops closer to the border line with the Russian Federation causes in the Russian capital concern.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on August 29, submitted to the Parliament the law on the abolition of non-aligned status and resume course to join NATO. As said the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the purpose of Kiev, " the special status between Ukraine and NATO ". Later, however, the Committee on problems of national security and defense Glad recommended to consider the question of the abolition of the non-aligned status of Ukraine's new Parliament.


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