Moscow requires public refusal to NATO to take Ukraine to Alliance

Moscow will insist that NATO publicly announced the refusal to take Ukraine to its composition, and Kiev must proclaim neutral and non-block status. This, as TASS reports, said the head of the delegation of the Russian Federation at the negotiations in Vienna on military security and arms control Konstantin Gavrilov.

Russia will insist that NATO publicly announced the refusal of Ukraine’s adoption in its ranks. Kiev, in turn, should proclaim his neutral, non-block status, as envisaged in the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine dated July 16, 1990 of the year, “says Gavrilov statement.

According to him, the need to fulfill the declaration was recorded in the act of proclaiming of Ukraine’s independence of August 24, 1991.