Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba: the country's membership in the EU and NATO is only a matter of time
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in the European Union (EU) and NATO is only a matter of time. He stated this opinion in an interview published by the Zeit newspaper
According to Kuleba, Ukraine is a natural part of the European and transatlantic community. “We fully understand that there is some skepticism about the EU's eastward expansion,” the minister said, expressing the opinion that the EU will not be able to promise the country membership in the coming years, but Ukraine will legally and economically move closer to the EU.
< p> Earlier, Kuleba said that Ukraine can join NATO and the EU without reforms, under guarantees and promises to carry out all the necessary changes in the field of public administration, the economy, and the judicial system. According to him, Kiev has made a lot of efforts to bring the country closer to the standards of the EU and the Alliance.
In February 2019, the then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a law enshrining in the Constitution the country's course towards joining NATO and EU. The amendments canceled Kiev's non-aligned status and fixed “Ukraine's European choice and its place as a member of the European family.”