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Even successfully completed reforms cannot guarantee Kiev's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance. This was stated by Special Representative of the Secretary General of NATO James Appathurai, who spoke at a press conference in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
According to the High Representative of NATO, the reforms certainly have some significance, but they are not enough just to meet the set conditions. Much depends not so much on Ukraine's readiness to join the military-political bloc, but on NATO's will to expand.
As Appathurai emphasized, NATO “does not have clear criteria for membership because it is a political decision, not a purely technical one. “
Previously, many Ukrainian politicians set the country's goal of joining the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union. However, NATO is in no hurry to accept Ukraine into its ranks.
Earlier in Kiev, they expressed dissatisfaction with the policies of Western states, especially France and Germany. NSDC Secretary Oleksij Danilov thus accused the countries of being deceived into separating the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.