Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico warned that Ukraine’s accession to NATO would provoke a global conflict, Politico reported.

“I understand Ukraine’s desire, it is an independent country, but Ukraine’s membership in NATO is just a guarantee of World War III,” Fico said just hours after the Slovak delegation at the NATO summit in Washington supported the common position that Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to joining the North Atlantic Alliance. The alliance.

The Prime minister clarified that he instructed the representatives of Slovakia at the summit to point out again that Ukraine can join NATO only after it fulfills all the criteria for membership. In addition, he noted that all countries belonging to the alliance should agree to the possibility of Ukraine’s accession so that it could join the ranks of NATO members.

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