Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The Ukrainian authorities will follow your roadmap to NATO accession: to cancel the non-aligned status, to undertake the necessary for membership in NATO reform and the referendum in the country, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
" I remember 9 months ago in this building, I said that membership in NATO is not yet in our near future. I have to say that this perspective has completely changed, " said Yatsenyuk at a press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
according to him, " the Ukrainian leader, the Prime Minister and the government have one common position on issues of national defense and security."
" Our solution is to eliminate the so-called non-aligned status, which gave Russia the former head of Yanukovych. Second - we need to undertake the necessary reforms in the political sector, the security sector in the economy, justice, to fulfill the criteria applied to member countries. According to Ukrainian legislation, we need to hold a referendum in the country ", - said Yatsenyuk.
according to him, if the Ukrainian authorities will be able to apply and to do all This, the state will be ready to join the Alliance." This road map, we will follow this road map, " said the Prime Minister.
" Let me remind you of the conclusions of the Bucharest summit in 2008, which clearly stipulates that Ukraine will be a member of NATO. I was glad to have It as soon as possible. But, if we, for example, tomorrow morning will send a request to the member countries for membership, I'm not sure that everyone will be happy " - said Yatsenyuk. According to his statement, " the most important thing to carry out reforms, to fulfill the criteria." It is in the interests of the countries-members of NATO to have a strong Ukraine. The stronger the Ukraine, the stronger NATO and member countries ", - he said.
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