Ukraine’s proposed membership in NATO should not be used as a “bargaining chip” in this week’s talks between Russia and the United States over the eastern European nation’s confrontation with Moscow, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for European affairs said Monday.
Olga Stefanishyna met the Western military alliance’s secretary general on Monday ahead of a full meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, which helps direct the relationship between NATO allies and the beleaguered nation.
Her statement comes as Ukraine seeks to underline not only its partnership with NATO but its burgeoning relationship with western Europe — efforts that some defence and foreign policy experts say are aggravating
