Appeals part authorized the Ukrainian authorities to abandon the non-aligned status of Ukraine to join NATO is an attempt to derail all efforts aimed at achieving national reconciliation, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov..

before the government of Ukraine approved the draft law on the abolition of non-aligned status of the country and the capture rate for membership in NATO. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the purpose of Kiev, " the special status between Ukraine and NATO ". However, the staff of the foreign Ministry say that the issue of Ukraine's accession to NATO in the agenda of the summit is not listed.

" After the contacts at the level of the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, After the meeting of the presidents of the countries of the Customs Union, Ukraine and commissioners of the European Union, After President Putin, exactly in these moments, when he sasupevelshi approaches how to start to solve real problems between Kiev and militias, exactly in this period sounded requirements of some other Kiev authorities about the need to discard the non-aligned status and begin to join NATO. It's a blatant attempt to derail all efforts aimed at initiating a dialogue in order to provide national accord, " said Lavrov at the meeting with Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

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