Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon said today that Slovenia, like many of its major allies, is holding back until Ukraine joins NATO due to the high security risks. “If NATO decided to accept Ukraine as a member, this could be a clear prediction of the beginning of war,” said the minister on the sidelines of an economic event in Vitanje.
In response to a journalist’s question about possible support for Ukraine’s entry into NATO, she reminded that Slovenia helps Ukraine to the best of its ability with humanitarian, development, and military aid and will do so as long as Ukraine needs help.
The war in Ukraine is intensifying, there are fears of the use of tactical nuclear weapons, she warned, adding that Slovenia strongly condemned the illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories by the Russian regime and Russian President Vladimir Putin as completely unacceptable and illegal.
“This aggravation of the situation, as a result, Ukraine’s request or Ukraine’s talks for NATO membership are very worrying,” she said.
If NATO decided to accept Ukraine as a member, it would be a big security risk, so in her opinion “they will have to have a very good discussion at the political level in the country about where such a situation leads”. Slovenia advocates a policy of peace and dialogue, and any such decision-making leads away from the possibility of calming the situation and towards the escalation of war, which no one wants, she added.
When asked whether there are already talks on the issue of Ukraine’s membership in NATO at the national level, she said that last week Poland launched a statement that also indirectly indicated support for Ukraine’s membership in the NATO alliance, which Slovenia did not accede to.
Just today, according to her, the state secretaries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Office are talking about it, she also spoke with the chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee this morning, she said, and announced that they plan to “sit down together this week and discuss several open issues in relation to Russia and the escalation of the war in Ukraine”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced last Friday, after Russia annexed four Ukrainian regions, that his country would apply to join NATO through an expedited procedure. At the end of the week, the presidents of the nine Central and Eastern European NATO members already expressed their support for Ukraine’s entry into NATO.
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Tanja Fajon je povedala, kakšno je stališče Slovenije do vstopa Ukrajine v zvezo Nato. FOTO: Blaž Samec
Zunanja ministrica Tanja Fajon je danes dejala, da je zaradi velikih varnostnih tveganj Slovenija, tako kot mnoge velike zaveznice, zadržana do vstopa Ukrajine v zvezo Nato. »Če bi se zveza Nato odločala o sprejemu Ukrajine v članstvo, je to lahko jasna napoved začetka vojne,« je dejala ministrica ob robu gospodarskega dogodka v Vitanju.
Na novinarsko vprašanje o morebitni podpori vstopu Ukrajine v Nato je Fajonova odgovorila, da Slovenija po svojih najboljših močeh pomaga Ukrajini s humanitarno, razvojno, pa tudi vojaško pomočjo ter bo to počela, dokler bo Ukrajina pomoč potrebovala. Vojna v Ukrajini se zaostruje, obstajajo bojazni pred uporabo taktičnega jedrskega orožja, je opozorila in dodala, da je Slovenija ostro obsodila nezakonito aneksijo ukrajinskih ozemelj s strani ruskega režima in ruskega predsednika Vladimirja Putina kot nekaj povsem nesprejemljivega in nezakonitega. »To zaostrovanje razmer, posledično tudi prošnja Ukrajine oziroma pogovori Ukrajine za članstvo v zvezi Nato, so zelo zaskrbljujoči.«
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Če bi se zveza Nato odločala o sprejemu Ukrajine v članstvo, bi to bilo veliko varnostno tveganje, zato se bodo po mnenju Fajonove »morali na ravni politike v državi zelo dobro pogovoriti o tem, kam vodijo takšne razmere«. Slovenija zagovarja politiko miru, dialoga, vsako takšno sprejemanje odločitev pa vodi stran od možnosti umiritve razmer in v smer eskalacije vojne, česar si nihče ne želi, je dodala. Na vprašanje, ali na ravni države že potekajo pogovori o vprašanju ukrajinskega članstva v Natu, je odgovorila, da je prejšnji teden Poljska sprožila izjavo, ki je posredno nakazovala tudi podporo članstvu Ukrajine v zvezi Nato, h kateri Slovenija ni pristopila. Prav danes po njenih besedah državni sekretarji na zunanjem ministrstvu in v kabineta predsednika vlade govorijo o tem, tudi s predsednikom odbora za zunanjo politiko je govorila zjutraj., Ta teden nameravajo »sesti skupaj in se pogovoriti o več odprtih vprašanjih v odnosu do Rusije in zaostrovanja vojne v Ukrajini«.
Ukrajinski predsednik Volodimir Zelenski je minuli petek, potem ko si je Rusija priključila štiri ukrajinske regije, napovedal, da bo njegova država zaprosila za vstop v Nato po hitrem postopku. Predsedniki devetih srednje- in vzhodnoevropskih članic Nata so konec tedna že izrazili podporo vstopu Ukrajine v Nato.
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