German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated that not accepting Ukraine and Georgia into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the right step, and emphasized that this issue is not on the agenda and is not.
In his press statement, the German Chancellor added that the issue of the accession of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to the European Union cannot be discussed at the moment until the situation in Ukraine calms down.
NATO countries confirmed at the Bucharest summit in 2008 that Georgia and Ukraine have the right to become members of the organization, and they postponed their decisions on this issue indefinitely.
And at a summit in Brussels in June last year, NATO leaders affirmed the right of the two countries to join the military bloc, emphasizing that this is linked to reforms and that it may take a long time.
Kyiv’in At a time when it has made every effort to join NATO since 2014, Moscow has consistently reaffirmed its rejection of this step, seeing it as a threat to its own security and urging NATO not to expand eastward to its borders.
Source: RIA Novosti
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