The course on NATO officially became the priority of the foreign policy of Ukraine

In the official newspaper of the Verkhovna Rada "Voice of Ukraine" on Saturday, July 8, the law on the priority of the country's membership in NATO was published . The document will enter into force the day after its publication.

Changes on the priority of Ukraine’s membership in the North Atlantic Alliance have been introduced into two laws: “On the basics of national security” and “On the basics of domestic and foreign policy”.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for focusing on NATO membership as a strategic foreign policy priority of state policy a month ago - June 8, remembers DW . Then this decision was supported by 260 deputies, only 20 opposed, another 16 abstained.

The law providing for the integration of Ukraine into the Euro -Atlantic security space in order to acquire membership in NATO, the country's President Petro Poroshenko signed on July 6.

The Kremlin then said that they would take measures in response to the expansion of NATO to the borders of Russia. At the same time, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov recalled that the civil war "continues in Ukraine, while one of the conditions for the entry of states into the North Atlantic Alliance is the lack of internal conflicts and territorial disputes.