MUNICH (Reuters) – Ukraine will become a member of the European Union and NATO, but it cannot rejoin the Atlantic alliance as long as it is at war with Russia, the Italian affairs minister said on Saturday foreigners, Antonio Tajani.
“The message to Russia is very clear: Ukraine will become a member of the European Union, and then we will work towards Ukraine becoming a member of NATO,” he said at the conference. on the safety of Munich, Germany.
NATO membership is impossible as long as Ukraine remains in conflict with Russia, he added.
“We have to be very careful” because having a full NATO member at war with Russia “means a Third World War,” Antonio Tajani said.
(Reporting by Alvise Armellini; French version Elizabeth Pineau)
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