Nausėda: Lithuania is trying to include the issue of Ukraine’s EU membership perspective in the upcoming EWC agenda
“One of my happiest days last year was when it was announced by the European Council that Ukraine would receive the status of a candidate country. Now it’s time to go further – to go further and consolidate this achievement. And I know that your very complicated state of war is rapidly implementing all the recommendations that are necessary to start negotiations on joining the European Union”, G. Nausėda said at the press conference of the presidents of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania on Wednesday.
He assured that Lithuania seeks to include the issue of Ukraine’s EU membership prospects in the February agenda of the European Economic Area.
“I think that we will already have the opportunity to consider this issue and the progress achieved at the extraordinary Council of European Leaders, which will take place on February 9-10. At least the representatives of my country are trying to put Ukraine on the agenda and we could already include it in the question of whether Ukraine has made progress,” said G. Nausėda.
“And I very much hope that during the Swedish presidency, a clear political will will be declared and concrete steps will be taken for a larger EU membership negotiation date,” he added.
G. Nausėda emphasized that Lithuania is also making great efforts so that Ukraine takes advantage of the principle established at the Bucharest NATO summit in 2008 regarding the alliance’s open doors to all those who wish to submit a state to it.
“However, in 14 years, we have not made much progress in that direction, if we were talking specifically about Ukraine. And with regard to today’s meeting, we talked about what security guarantees I could give at the next summit so that Ukraine really feels safer, that it feels that it has NATO and that we can talk about political cooperation between Ukraine and NATO,” he said.
Thus, the president emphasized, the issue of Ukraine’s membership in NATO cannot be removed from the agenda.
“We have to agree on which way, with which algorithms we will move towards this final goal,” he emphasized.
The head of the country, together with the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland, will be added to Lvi for the second summit of the Lublin Triangle on Wednesday.
Lublin Triangle – 2020 an initiative of economic, cultural and political regional cooperation between Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine was established, which aims to strengthen mutual military, cultural and economic cooperation and support Ukraine’s integration into the European Union. The first summit meeting of the Lublin Triangle took place in December 2021 in Ukraine. On the Eve of the Russian Invasion, 2022 February 23 The leaders of the Lublin triangle met again in Kyiv.
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