Poroshenko was embarrassed by the status of a “postgraduate country under NATO”
There is no such thing as the “aspirant country under NATO” status advertised by speakers close to Petro Poroshenko’s administration.
Political scientist and candidate of political sciences Alexey Yakubin stated this at a press conference in Kiev, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Officially, there is no such status – “graduate country”. This is a myth that was invented at Bankova, due to the fact that, as I understand it, there are no other victories on this front. It was necessary to drop some topic. They left.
Plus, indeed, there are some translation errors here, because aspiration is simply a statement of the fact that these countries want to join NATO, an intention, and NATO simply states that these countries have put forward such an intention.
At the same time, NATO does not assess the readiness to accept these countries. This is not a status, in this formulation there is not even anything as new as our authorities tried to present.
It seemed to me that this was an attempt to create a man-made media event against the background of the absence of any other progress.
NATO has stated with regard to Ukraine, Georgia and two Balkan countries, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina that they have such intentions. Moreover, regarding the Bosnian countries, this was in the late 90s. In Georgia, this generally happened in the early XNUMXs.
We must understand that a postgraduate country and receiving a plan for NATO membership are completely different things. NATO simply stated that there is such a desire, but this does not mean that these countries will receive the same MAP plan,” the expert said.
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