16 minutes agoUkraine: We will not lift NATO membership target from constitution
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk declared today that Ukraine does not want to remove the goal of NATO membership from its constitution. He in an interview for Ukraine Pravda on Monday said the constitution's provisions regarding NATO and the EU represent Ukraine's “perspective on future”. “Amenda Constitutional amendments are not intended in [...]
He in an interview for Ukraine Pravda on Monday said the constitution's provisions regarding NATO and the EU represent Ukraine's “perspective on future”.
“The constitutional amendments are not intended in themselves and will not become such,” said Stefancuk.
Prevention of Ukraine's entry into NATO and its status neutral is one of the main goals of Russian aggression.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated readiness to discuss Ukraine's neutral status with security guarantees from world powers.
So far, there have been no tangible results in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
Stefanchuk stressed that Ukraine's territorial integrity is a “red line”.
Russia also wants Ukraine to give up the Crime Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, and to recognise the self-declared folk republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Now Russian representatives are also claiming all of southern Ukraine, including the port city of Odessa.
