Ukraine does not accept any alternatives to granting the status of a candidate for accession to the European Union.
Source: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba
“We will not accept any surrogate versions or alternatives instead of candidate status, whatever they may be. We need the status of a candidate for EU membership. No candidate for a candidate, no potential candidate or another surrogate, nothing else. We have been playing this game for a long time and we know how it works.”
According to him, Ukraine meets the criteria for the candidate status, but there are still skeptics in Europe who are trying to impose an alternative.
“I want to thank more than 200 civil society and non-governmental organizations, and I am told that this is the largest number of organizations in history to unite in an advocacy campaign and sign a letter to foreign governments that Ukraine should be granted candidate status in June,” said Kuleba.
The Minister added that candidate status was the latest psychological barrier for EU skeptics.
“I do not see any rational arguments from our skeptics.”
