KIEV: President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s membership in NATO remained a “strategic goal” even though the Western military alliance remained sceptical about enlisting the former Soviet state.
The pro-Western leader’s comments are sure to irritate Russia at a time when the neighbours’ relations are already boiling over Moscow’s allegations that Kiev tried to seize back the Kremlin-annexed Crimea peninsula last month.
Poroshenko told lawmakers at the start of Ukraine’s new parliament session that Kiev had already achieved “an unprecedented and very close level of cooperation with Alliance member states.”
“Our strategic goal is Nato membership,” he said. “I would like …read more
Source: The News International
