A possible refusal by the European Union to Ukraine in granting the status of a candidate for membership would be a fraud on the part of the EU, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said, commenting on the forecast of French President Emmanuel Macron that Ukraine's accession to the EU may take "

“Three months ago, our country did not even have the prospect of membership. Now they are discussing how long it will take,” Kuleba said in an interview with the Financial Times..

According to him, now the most important thing is for Ukraine to receive the status of a candidate for EU membership in June: “Then we will sit down with you and solve the rest of the issues.. how. When and so on"

“If we don’t get candidate status, it means only one thing that Europe is trying to deceive us. And we are not going to swallow it,"

He stressed that Ukraine is the only place in Europe where people die because of the values \u200b\u200bon which the EU is based..

“And I think that this should be respected,” he stressed..

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