For now, the main thing is to get candidate status.
Possible refusal of the European Union to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate membership will be a scam on the part of the EU, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, commenting on French President Emmanuel Macron's forecast that “Ukraine's accession to the EU may take” several years, but in fact several decades “. .
“Three months ago, our country did not even have the prospect of membership. They are now discussing how long it will take, “Kuleba said in an interview with the Financial Times.
According to him, the most important thing now is for Ukraine to receive EU candidate status in June: you and solve the rest of the issues. How. When and so on. ”
If we do not get candidate status, it means only one thing that Europe is trying to deceive us. And we are not going to swallow it, “the Foreign Minister added.
He stressed that Ukraine is the only place in Europe where people die for the values on which the EU is based.
“And I believe that this should be respected,” he said. > Read also: Zelensky counts on EU candidate status for Ukraine in June
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