Zelensky: We appreciate recognition Ukraine doesn't need MAP to join NATO

12.07.2023 14:35

Ukrinform

President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that Ukraine appreciates the recognition that it does not need a Membership Action Plan and called it a good result of the current summit.

President Zelensky said this during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Vilnius, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"We really appreciate this recognition that the MAP is not needed," Zelensky said.

He also emphasized that the results of the current summit "are good, but if there had been an invitation, they would have been perfect."

President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that on the sidelines of the NATO summit he felt such confidence in Ukraine's membership in the Alliance that he had probably never heard before, but this will happen when the "appropriate conditions" are in place.

Zelensky considers such conditions to be the time when it becomes safe on Ukrainian soil.

As reported, the NATO summit is taking place in Vilnius on July 11-12.