NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg received Ukraine’s application for joining the Alliance.
Ihor Zhovkva, deputy head of OP, stated this at the briefing.
– As of today, the Secretary General (NATO Jens Stoltenberg, – Ed.) received the application officially through a note from Ukraine, and the next stage will be the discussion of this application at the level of the North Atlantic Council, i.e. at the level of the ambassadors of NATO member states in Brussels, – he says.
He also noted that the presidents of nine NATO member states – Estonia, Latvia, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Montenegro – supported Ukraine’s decision to join the Alliance.
– When Ukraine declares that it will move to NATO according to the accelerated procedure, it means that today, taking into account the experience of countries such as Sweden and Finland, Ukraine expects that the movement towards NATO membership will continue without the use of the Action Plan instrument membership, which until now was one of the mandatory elements, – explained Zhovkva.
The deputy head of the OP emphasized that now the president and the diplomatic service are conducting negotiations with NATO member states so that Ukraine’s application “receives practical consideration.”