In official NATO documents, the status of the postgraduate country is not fixed, but the inclusion of Ukraine among the countries that have declared their desire for membership means that in the future it can join the Alliance.
This was stated by the head of the mission of Ukraine to NATO Vadim Pristaiko in Brussels.
- Formally, this status is not fixed anywhere in the official documents of the alliance. But what happened - Ukraine was recognized as one of those countries that wants to join NATO. In total, there are four countries that today the alliance recognizes as its future members. You can use the word "candidacy", but there is no such formal phrase in NATO documents. This is a consolidated decision of the alliance, which was fixed by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. We will have to work harder, "he said..