UKRINFORM as follows: We also discussed [with the president of Ukraine] the upcoming NATO summit to be held in Brussels in mid-June..The summit participants will discuss a formal definition of the path which Ukraine should follow towards membership in the North Atlantic Alliance..
Duda also affirmed that Ukraine s conflict with Russia was a fundamental cause for not only Kiev but for other friends from this part of Europe.
Interfax-Ukraine reminded its readers that at a briefing on April 16 after meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukraine s Zelensky expected to hear support for the provision of the Membership Action Plan at the NATO summit.
Polish President Andrzej Duda will travel to Bucharest to meet his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis next Monday for a joint teleconference meeting with leaders of the Bucharest Nine (B-9) group.
The head of the National Security Bureau, Paweł Soloch, announced that the B-9 countries wanted this meeting before the NATO summit, to find common grounds on various topics including tensions with Russia. The meeting also seeks to underline the position of the group of NATO eastern flank countries at the first summit of the alliance to welcome US President Joe Biden.
“Our president, I think also our partners from the Bucharest Nine, will emphasise the necessity to further strengthen NATO, above all the military adaptation of the alliance, also in connection with aggressive Russian policy, and the need to tighten transatlantic ties,” said Soloch.
Wednesday, 05 May 2021, 14:01
Signing declaration on European prospect brings Ukraine closer to EU - Zelensky
05.05.2021 09:53
Ukrinform
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is carrying out a transformation that really brings Ukraine closer to joining the European Union.
According to the president’s press service, Zelensky said that by implementing the Association Agreement with the European Union, Ukraine has progressed so far that the modernization of the Agreement is a fair task, which Ukraine is already working on with European partners. Ukrainians are already influencing our common European destiny. It is on our land that the future of Europe is being decided. We will ensure full integration of Ukraine into the commonwealth of European countries, and this will prove that the basic values of freedom, democracy and equality on our continent are key elements of large-scale progress and development, Zelensky said.
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President of Poland Andrzej Duda accepted the invitation of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to take part in the founding summit of the Crimean Platform and events on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence.
“I am sincerely glad that Polish President Andrzej Duda accepted my invitation and will visit Kyiv in August this year to participate in the Crimean Platform summit and events marking the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence,” Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Twitter on Monday, May 3.
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