Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that Ukraine's membership of the European Union and NATO remains the country's strategic goal, but it is not a prospect of 2018, according to an op-ed published in the "The World in 2018" special edition of the Ukrainian weekly Novoe Vremya and The Economist.
Ukraine should itself decide whether it should apply for membership in NATO and what way it should choose to define its course toward Euro-Atlantic integration, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a press conference in Brussels on Monday ahead of the meeting of the Alliance’s foreign ministers.