Neither Minsk agreements nor the Normandy Four accords contain any reservations on Ukraine's NATO membership prospects.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky says the country is ready to amend the Constitution toward further decentralization, in accordance with the Minsk Agreements on Donbas settlement.
When asked by a New York Times journalist, whether Ukraine is ready to fulfill Russia's demands to amend the Constitution, to drop NATO prospects as a price for peace, Zelensky replied that neither the Minsk Agreements nor Normandy Four accords contain any reservations on NATO membership, the Presidential Office reports.
"On changing the Constitution in the direction of which we sometimes hear from Russia in the media space – here they know my position, I told Putin directly that I don't agree here. I understand that we want separate powers, the right to choose, so that no one then speculates on language issues, so that the Donbas residents speak as they want – please, to all these issues, I believe, we should be as liberal as possible," the president said, according to his press service's report delivered in Ukrainian.
He stressed that Ukraine is ready to pass amendments to the Constitution related to decentralization.
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