Ukraine doesn't need "surrogates" of EU candidate status, Foreign Minister Kuleba says
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Ukraine is looking forward to EU candidate status
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba stated on his Twitter, Rubryka reports.
He also stressed that attempts to propose other formats instead were offensive.
"Strategic ambiguity on Ukraine's European perspective practiced by some EU capitals in the past years has failed and must end. It only emboldened Putin.
We do not need surrogates for EU candidate status that show second-class treatment of Ukraine and hurt feelings of Ukrainians," Kuleba stressed.
Strategic ambiguity on Ukraine's European perspective practiced by some EU capitals in the past years has failed and must end. It only emboldened Putin. We do not need surrogates for EU candidate status that show second-class treatment of Ukraine and hurt feelings of Ukrainians.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) May 19, 2022
As reported by Rubryka, the President of the European Council Charles Michel proposed to create a new political platform for European cooperation, open to Ukraine and will put this issue on the agenda of the summit of EU leaders in late June.
He assured that the new initiative should not replace the enlargement of the European Union, a process that has slowed down in recent years, but which Michel proposes to significantly intensify.
As Rubryka previously reported, French President Emmanuel Macron was the first to announce such an idea, proposing a format of cooperation that could include European countries outside the European Union, such as Ukraine and Britain.
At the same time, Macron expressed the opinion that Ukraine would need a very long time to become a member of the European Union.
