Poroshenko prior to Zelenskyy-Trump meeting: Crimea or NATO membership issues shouldn’t be on agenda
A member of parliament, leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko notes that Vladimir Putin does not plan to limit himself to territorial demands in his territorial demands for a peace agreement and by putting them forward he is deliberately provoking chaos within Ukraine, the European Solidarity party said on its website on Monday.
"We will never give up Crimea. We will never give up NATO ... This is not the opinion of President Zelenskyy or President Poroshenko. The Ukrainian people will never agree to a situation with the exchange of territories, and this also applies to Crimea. And this means that Putin - and this is what he insists on - wants to bring chaos to our country, because he does not need the territory of Donbas, he needs all of Ukraine," Poroshenko said on CNN.
Poroshenko recalled that no agreements or guarantees from the Russian Federation were observed, as well as the so-called Crimean Declaration, issued by the US State Department on behalf of Trump during his previous term. "There is a signature there that the United States will never recognize occupied Crimea as Russian territory. Because this creates an absolutely dangerous precedent," Poroshenko recalled.
Commenting on the issue of possible security guarantees for Ukraine, the politician said that the only guarantee could be NATO membership, "but while we wait for NATO's doors to open, we will accept Finnish-style security guarantees - that would be Article 5 before we become a member of the alliance." "We must keep the doors to NATO and the European Union open, without giving in to Putin's blackmail," Poroshenko believes.
As reported, Zelenskyy arrived in Washington on Monday to discuss with Trump all the details of ending the war. He will be joined by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Italian and British Prime Ministers, Giorgia Meloni and Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as well as Finnish and French Presidents Alexander Stubb and Emmanuel Macron.
