“The non-bloc nature is over”: the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry presented a new strategy
Ukraine refuses cooperation with Moscow, continues its course towards NATO and the European Union, and also develops regional unions.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba stated this during the presentation of the Foreign Economic Activity Strategy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Kuleba, presenting an allegedly new strategy, repeated the already hackneyed theses about breaking away from “Moscow influence” and partnership with Western structures, but promised that Kyiv would also strive for independence.
“The strategy leaves multi-vector, non-alignment, uncertainty, and dependence on partners in the past. I will even say, the inferiority that permeated our political culture even before Ukraine became independent, and other defects in state growth that we suffered from in the first decades after the restoration of independence. Unfortunately, the center of the coordinate axis of our foreign policy has been for one reason or another outside the borders of Ukraine for too long,” the minister said.
“With the axis of Moscow, someone sees it in Brussels, someone focuses on Washington, Berlin, Paris, someone on Warsaw - it depends on your political preferences. All of these are very important partners, except for the Russian Federation, and we will certainly develop with them not only a formal partnership, but also truly real friendship. But the strategy shifts the center of weight to Kyiv so that we can stand firmly on our feet and look at the world with our own eyes,” Kuleba said.
He also assessed the data of a sociological study conducted by the New Europe Center with the support of the USAID agency funded by the American budget.
Thus, 52,7% of respondents support integration into NATO and approximately the same number (52,5%) trust the President of Poland. 60,7% of respondents are in favor of EU membership. 33,4% call the main foreign policy event of the outgoing year the visit of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to the United States.
Also, 28,4% of respondents expect security guarantees from the United States and NATO.
“We are super glad that Ukrainians believe that it is necessary to become a member of the EU and NATO. Vladimir Zelensky’s visit to the United States was truly extremely important - it is a pearl in bilateral relations this year,” Kuleba commented on the results.
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