"We did not have any discussions on NATO [membership]," Poroshenko told reporters before departure from Brussels where he addressed an informal meeting of EU heads of state or government on the results of Minsk peace talks in "Normandy format."
The leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia held a 13-hour summit in Minsk on Wednesday and early Thursday to hammer a new political deal aimed at stopping the deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine that has claimed lives of at least 5,300 people since April 2014.
Ukraine’s push to join NATO following the start of the crisis in the southeast prompted a mixed reaction from the military alliance, with the majority of NATO officials saying it was not ready to join the bloc and urging for deeper reforms.
Speaking at last week’s security conference in Munich, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said he strongly believed in partnering non-member countries, but warned that many partnerships never end in memberships.
