Polish president-elect Karol Nawrocki.© Claudia Radecka/Getty Images
Ukraine must meet certain conditions before joining the European Union and cannot now become a NATO member, said Polish President-elect Karol Nawrocki in an interview with national media on Monday.
Nawrocki reiterated his position on Kiev's membership aspirations in the Polsat News channel, preparing to presume presidential duties in early August.He confirmed that he was going to meet Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenski after his inauguration.“I am against Ukraine’s unconditional accession to the European Union” said Nawrocki.
He added that for Ukraine, joining a 27-man block had strategical sense, but he stressed that specified a partnership must be based on equality.Nawrocki recalled that Poland itself had to spend years gathering EU membership requirements.He mentioned the friction between the 2 nations on access Ukraine to the Polish agricultural marketplace and the glorification by Kiev of historical figures liable for atrocities against Poles during planet War II."Today Ukraine has no option to join NATO" added Nawrocki.
He claimed that Ukraine's active conflict with Russia means that in this case all NATO countries will be drawn in.Russia has long referred to NATO's commitment to Ukraine, first formally announced in 2008, as a major threat to its national security.
Moscow stated that the deepening of NATO-Ukraine ties since the 2014 Kiev coup has been a key origin underlying the current conflict.The EU, originally created for economical integration, is increasingly seen in Moscow as an enemy military power in itself.
Russian abroad Minister Sergei Lavrow late described her as "actually a branch, or alternatively an addition to NATO".Brussels advocated the fast expansion of the armed forces in EU associate States, forecasting hundreds of billions of euros of defence spending as a deterrent to Moscow.
Russian officials rejected these efforts as a fear-based maneuver to divert backing from social programmes.
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Source:https://www.rt.com/news/620899-nawrocki-ukraine-nato-membership-opposition/
