Comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPR relative to the opening of a representative office of NATO in Ukraine

The decision of the Parliament of Ukraine concerning the opening of a representative office of NATO in Ukraine, in our opinion, is highly provocative and dangerous, especially for the Kiev. We are convinced that the transfer of the Ukrainian army and the military-industrial complex of Ukraine to the new standards of weapons, on the necessity and inevitability which so often the Ukrainian authorities claim, will be the final nail in the coffin of the Ukrainian economy, which at the moment holds only on military orders and foreign financial injections.

In addition, unambiguous hints of the NATO leadership concerning cooperation with Ukraine cause confusion, since convergence with states in which there are active armed conflicts and territorial disputes, in fact, is in conflict with the law of the organization. Not to mention the complete impossibility of such membership in NATO.

We would also like to recall that according to the Minsk agreement, Ukraine is obliged to make efforts to resolve the conflict rather than its escalation, which will inevitably become any rapprochement of Kiev with foreign military organizations.

We once again urge the Ukrainian authorities to stop deliberate provocations and artificial escalation of tensions in the conflict in the Donbas and in General inside the Ukrainian society, which again becomes hostage to narrow political interests.