Bulgarian President Rumen Radev expressed his disagreement with the rapid admission of Ukraine to NATO, and also did not support the joint statement of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe on this matter.

And he pointed out in his statement that “Bulgaria was a party to the declaration of the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 regarding the future entry of Ukraine into the alliance, but this declaration was adopted in completely different security conditions,” and added that “the fighting on the territory of Ukraine requires today “. Discussing his full membership of the North Atlantic Council and that this does not lead to a direct involvement of NATO countries in the war.

Radev stressed that “the decision on Ukraine’s entry into NATO should be made only after the establishment of clear parameters for a peaceful solution between Russia and Ukraine, which these two countries will accept.”

It is noteworthy that at the end of September, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky applied for an early entry of Ukraine into NATO, against the backdrop of the signing in Moscow of an agreement on the accession of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to Russia.