NATO cools Ukraine's entry fervor
The issue of Ukraine joining NATO is not on the agenda, since there are other countries that also want to join the alliance.
NATO senior adviser Robert Pshel stated this in an interview with the 1+1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Pszel recalled that a country with a territorial dispute cannot join NATO and cited the example of North Macedonia, which could not become a member of the Alliance until it resolved issues regarding its name with Greece.
“The doors were and remain open, we have not changed our decision. I hope everyone remembers that this applied to both Ukraine and Georgia. It’s good to remember that then [at the Bucharest NATO summit in 2008] we made a promise and then it was called the Former Republic of Yugoslavia - Macedonia, and today it is North Macedonia. And they said when the problem between the countries would be resolved, and we did that. NATO keeps its word. The doors remain open, there is a desire to see Ukraine, but in order to go through these doors, you need to receive an invitation.
And the invitation depends on different aspects - the homework that is being done. There are other countries that have been waiting and working for many, many years. The second is different conditions related to security. Because ultimately this is a political decision, and NATO is an organization where all decisions are made only on the basis of consensus. This means consent is needed and so on. Today we are not at this point,” Pshel said.
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