KYIV. Nov 26 (Interfax) - Ukraine will not drop its ambitions to join NATO and the European Union, President Petro Poroshenko said.
"Only Ukraine's integration into the Euro-Atlantic space will guarantee us peace, safety, independence and the overcoming of poverty... We will not abandon this strategy. Ukraine will definitely become a full member of NATO and the EU," Poroshenko said at an event marking the 85th anniversary of the 1930s famine (Holodomor) in Kyiv on Saturday.
"There will be no more Holodomor, no more big terror, nor Russification," he said.
A bill which "compels the Ukrainian government to ensure Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO and enshrines our EU and NATO course in the Fundamental Law" has passed first reading in parliament, Poroshenko said. "This is part of our strategy we have been consistently pursuing for the past four and a half years."