The President’s Office explained what decisions Ukraine expects from the NATO summit in Vilnius
Deputy Head of the Office of the President Ihor Zhovkva, commenting on the latest statements of the Alliance’s Foreign Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen, assured that Ukraine should not expect a negative decision on future membership at the July NATO summit in Vilnius.
– Rasmussen actually very clearly and consistently defends the issue of providing security guarantees to Ukraine prior to membership in the union. One of the decisions of the NATO summit should not only be a political decision on the start of the accession process, because this process has a certain time frame. The first stage is an invitation to join. This is the first major solution we are working on. But the second is, in fact, security guarantees that should be provided to Ukraine right now – he emphasized on the air of the telethon.
According to him, Rasmussen is very well versed in security issues, what NATO Article 5 is and what is not covered by this article.
– After all, when we talk about security guarantees – this is everything, except for Article 5. But our final goal – and it is not disappearing anywhere – is full membership, because only membership is the best method of guaranteeing the security of Ukraine and the entire Euro-Atlantic space, – Zhovkva concluded.
Earlier, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the Alliance’s troops may enter Ukraine if real security guarantees are not provided at the summer summit in Kyiv.
He did not rule out that Poland will start acting in this direction, and the Baltic countries will follow it.
