Polish President calls for Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine to receive EU candidate status in “next few weeks”

The NATO summit starting this Thursday should “focus particularly” on the situation in Ukraine and Georgia, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday during a meeting with his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis.

Duda announced that together with Iohannis he would emphasise the European prospects of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, following the three countries’ formal applications earlier this month to join the European Union.

These countries in the near future, literally in the next few weeks, should receive the status of a candidate of the European Union,” Polish President noted.

Duda also called for meetings of NATO-Ukraine and NATO-Georgia committees to show “we remember about these countries and that the security issue is of fundamental importance.” 

Free, democratic countries have the right to self-determination, and people, who live there have the right to a free and undisturbed normal life,” Duda concluded.