Stoltenberg assessed the prospects for Ukraine's joining NATO

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: Alliance countries have not reached unity on Ukraine's accession to NATO

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg revealed Ukraine's prospects … His words are reported by TASS. According to the Secretary General, the members of the organization have not yet reached a consensus on this issue.

Until they became members. But above all, we have strengthened our partnership, we are working with them more closely … To become a NATO member, we must meet NATO standards. We help them fight corruption, but 30 allies must come to an agreement, and now we in NATO do not have a consensus agreement on inviting Ukraine to become a full member

Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General

He also said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants” something more “than support from the alliance, namely to achieve” full membership “in the organization.

They demanded changes

NATO and the European Union have repeatedly stressed that they will be able to consider Ukraine's membership in alliances only after Kiev has carried out global reforms in the country. One of the latest demands was the reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) – in particular, the deprivation of the agency's powers of pre-trial investigation, as well as a reduction in the number of security officials and the demilitarization of the special service. According to the mission of the EU, NATO and the United States, set out in the publication “European Truth”, this will help the country to come closer to the standards of Western organizations.

In response, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina proposed NATO create a digest of Ukrainian reforms. It should help the Ukrainian authorities better navigate the current changes, as well as work to translate the country's Euro-Atlantic aspirations.

However, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in early November that the country could join NATO and the European Union without reform, under guarantees and promises to carry out all the necessary changes in the field of public administration, economics, 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 North Atlantic Union.

Don't bear all the sadness of the reforms. If there is a political decision in the EU and NATO – we will take [Ukraine], then it will be easier for us to make reforms

Dmitry Kuleba Minister of Foreign Affairs of UkraineAmbitions of Ukraine

The new Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov intends to seek the creation of a NATO military base in the country. In turn, the Ukrainian deputy from the Servant of the People party Oleg Dunda said that the task of the new head of the defense department is to drag the United States into closer cooperation with Ukraine.

In addition, Kiev is in favor of actively deepening maritime cooperation with NATO countries “against the backdrop of Russia's offensive actions in the Black Sea.” According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, the expansion of the presence of the North Atlantic Alliance will stabilize the situation, and will also serve as a signal for Russia. “In the current security environment, a show of force is the best way to contain Moscow and avoid a new escalation,” Kuleba said.

His predecessor in office, Pavel Klimkin, also called on the United States to “send a signal to Russia.” He said that Washington must constantly confirm its words about its readiness to defend Ukraine from the “Russian threat” by real actions. In particular, the supply of weapons to Kiev.

Actions are always a signal. For example, the supply of weapons, the placement of training bases, the exchange of information, including confidential information

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Former People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Radical Party Oleg Lyashko Valeria Zaruzhkov admitted at the end of October that the country is not able to offer NATO anything in return for joining the alliance, so the country is counting only on protection. She believes that at the moment it is presumptuous for Ukraine to even talk about a membership action plan (MAP) in NATO, since Kiev is not a subject, but an object of negotiations, in which, according to the ex-people's deputy, Russia, the United States, Germany and France are participating.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba considers his country's membership in NATO a matter of time. He assured that his country will be able to bear full responsibility for a safe life in Europe and is already implementing all the necessary policy directions for this. The Foreign Minister called the last 30 years of Ukraine's history a period of great success, noting that the country has problems that require solutions.

However, most representatives of NATO countries, including the United States, do not share this position. Former adviser to 43rd US President George W. Bush on Russia and Eurasia, managing director of the consulting company Kissinger Associates Thomas Graham called the chances of Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO in the next decade tending to zero. He noted that NATO is aware of the need to restore dialogue with Russia on a number of critical security issues, and neither NATO nor Russia wants a conflict that would have dire consequences for all parties.

In his turn, Ukrainian political scientist Kirill Molchanov said that the real reason why the country cannot join the North Atlantic Alliance is not the conflicts in the Donbass and Crimea. He compared Ukraine's accession to NATO to the West's collective declaration of war on Russia.

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