Czech President is confident that Ukraine can become a NATO member despite the occupation of part of its territories
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Petr Pavel said that Ukraine's accession to NATO should not depend on regaining control over its entire territory. He proposed that Ukraine be admitted to the Alliance on the basis of a temporary administrative border.
Ukraine's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance should not depend on the restoration of full control over its entire territory. This was stated by Czech President Petr Pavel in an interview with Novinky and Pravo, UNN reports.
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Pavel believes that the full restoration of Ukraine's control over its entire territory should not be a “prerequisite” for NATO membership.
If there is a demarcation, even of some administrative border, we can accept this administrative border as a temporary one and admit Ukraine to NATO on the territory it will control at that time
In particular, he recalled that Germany was admitted to the Alliance in 1955, although part of its territory was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1990.
So I think there is a solution, both technical and legal, to allow Ukraine to join NATO without dragging NATO into a conflict with the Russian Federation
He emphasized that democratic countries should consider the territories of Ukraine seized by Russia only as temporarily occupied.
Recall
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv will not receive an invitation to join NATO until the war with Russia is over, as partner countries cannot extend a full invitation to a country at war.
