KYIV. Feb 8 (Interfax) - Ukraine should apply to join the European Union and receive a NATO Membership Action Plan, which it would start to fulfill in 2023, according to the program of President Petro Poroshenko, who will run for another term in office in the March 31 election.
"In 2023 we will submit an application to join the EU and will receive and start to implement the NATO Membership Action Plan," Poroshenko's program, which is available on the Ukrainian Central Elections Commission's website, said.
EU and NATO membership would guarantee high standards of living in Ukraine, the rule of law and equal rights for all, access to the world market, and security and safety of the state as part of NATO's fundamental "one-for-all, all-for-one" principle, according to the program.
"We will enter the EU and NATO as a country that is a regional leader," it said.
According to Poroshenko's program, within the next five years, Ukraine should become a leader in Europe's agricultural sector, one of the world's top five new leaders in the IT sector, a regional leader in industrial development, Eastern Europe's transport hub, and one of Europe's ten most-visited countries with the slogan "Trendy Country Being Discovered by the World."
This is the path that would "help [Ukraine] overcome poverty and ensure order, prosperity, and security for every Ukrainian," it said.