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Even successfully implemented reforms cannot guarantee Kiev’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance. This was stated by the special representative of the NATO Secretary General James Appathurai, speaking at a press conference in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
According to a senior NATO official, the reforms are certainly of some importance, but it is not enough just to fulfill the conditions set. Much depends not so much on the readiness of Ukraine itself to join the military-political bloc, but on the desire of NATO to expand.
As Appathurai stressed, NATO “does not have clear criteria after which membership is granted, since these are political decisions, not purely technical ones.”
Previously, many Ukrainian politicians set the country’s goal of joining the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union. However, NATO is in no hurry to accept Ukraine into its ranks.
Earlier, Kiev has already expressed dissatisfaction with the policies of Western states, especially France and Germany. Thus, the NSDC Secretary Alexey Danilov accused these countries of condoning the rejection of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.