70 percent of Ukrainians support Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and NATO, the press service of the BPP Solidarity Party said with reference to representative of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in parliament, Iryna Lutsenko.
“To date, about 70 percent of Ukraine’s population is in favor of the EU and NATO. The main referendum was already held on the Maidan when Russia persuaded Yanukovych through appropriate means because of pressure to renounce the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU. People attended the street protests! It was a real referendum, which lasted for more than one day, not by a simultaneous vote, but lasted four months. People were standing there for joining the EU,” Lutsenko said on the air of the Priamy TV channel, answering journalists’ questions about the need to hold a referendum on Ukraine’s accession to the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
She also noted that in the east of Ukraine there was a local referendum, “and it runs daily – at the cost of the victims of 13,000 people.”
“About 10,000 of them are civilians. Do you still need a referendum to understand that Ukraine needs the security of the union?! The place, where security, peace, sovereignty will be preserved, where people respect and uphold the rights and freedoms of citizens. This safe union is called the North Atlantic alliance of 29 countries,” the representative of the president in the parliament said.
