{"id":47561,"date":"2022-10-02T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=47561"},"modified":"2022-10-02T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:26:17","slug":"ukraines-application-for-nato-membership-is-not-a-matter-of-principle-at-the-moment-says-borrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=47561","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s application for NATO membership is not a matter of principle at the moment, says Borrell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate . 2 . October .2022 | World News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said that Ukraine&#8217;s application for NATO membership is not a matter of principle. He made such a statement during an interview with the Spanish channel\u00a024 Horas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borrell assured that Ukraine&#8217;s accession to NATO &#8220;is not a matter of principle&#8221; and that it is important to continue to support Ukraine in confronting Russian aggression. The official noted that it is necessary to extend sanctions against Russia, which, he assures, &#8220;come into force.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EU spokesman welcomed the continuation of &#8220;greater military assistance, additional sanctions, the preservation of those involved in the global diplomatic battle, because not all countries are so effective, strong and exhaustive against Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Citation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is the first time that the EU has used the funds it has to purchase weapons and deliver them to a country at war. Together with the U.S. contribution, this is what allowed Ukraine to defend itself,&#8221; Borrell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Add<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josep Borrell\u00a0rejected\u00a0the recent annexation of Ukrainian territories to Russia and assured that by doing so &#8220;Putin makes it difficult, even impossible, to end the war.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV. UkraineGate . 2 . October .2022 | World News . \u00a0High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said that Ukraine&#8217;s application for NATO membership is not a matter of principle. He made such a statement during an interview with the Spanish channel\u00a024 Horas. Details Borrell assured that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[813,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-47561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-russia","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47570,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47561\/revisions\/47570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}