Ökat ukrainskt stöd för medlemskap i Nato
Stödet för ett Nato-medlemskap ökar i Ukraina. Det rapporterar Ekot med hänvisning till två aktuella opinionsmätningar, varav en amerikansk och en ukrainsk.
Mätningarna visar att över 50 procent av Ukrainas befolkning nu stödjer ett Nato-medlemskap. Vid tiden för Rysslands annektering av Krim 2014 sa en majoritet av ukrainarna nej till att gå med i försvarsalliansen.
Men Nato har inga planer på att släppa in Ukraina i alliansen inom överskådlig framtid, skriver New York Times. Att landet behöver stärka sitt politiska och juridiska system lyfts som ett skäl. Ett annat som pekas ut är USA:s växande skepsis mot fler internationella militära åtaganden.
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Relationen mellan Ukraina och Nato
Wikipedia (en)
Relations between Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) started in 1994. Ukraine applied to begin a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008. Plans for NATO membership were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych, who preferred to keep the country non-aligned, was elected President. Amid the Euromaidan unrest, Yanukovych fled Ukraine in February 2014. The interim Yatseniuk Government which came to power initially said, with reference to the country's non-aligned status, that it had no plans to join NATO. However, following the Russian military invasion in Ukraine and parliamentary elections in October 2014, the new government made joining NATO a priority.At the June 2021 Brussels Summit, NATO leaders reiterated the decision taken at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine would become a member of the Alliance with the Membership Action Plan (MAP) as an integral part of the process and Ukraine's right to determine its own future and foreign policy, of course without outside interference. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also stressed that Russia will not be able to veto Ukraine's accession to NATO, as we will not return to the era of spheres of interest, when large countries decide what smaller ones should do.According to polls conducted between 2005 and 2013, Ukrainian public support of NATO membership remained low. However, since Russian military intervention in Ukraine and Crimea, public support for Ukrainian membership in NATO has risen greatly. Since June 2014, polls showed that about 50% of those asked supported Ukrainian NATO membership. Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovich was in power.
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