Interfax quoted Gryshchenko as saying that NATO membership did not have the support of the majority of the population and had a "destructive effect" on state policy.
But his words indicated that Ukraine, whose Crimean peninsula is home to Russia's Black Sea fleet on an extended lease until 2042, would continue to take part in military and civil emergency programs with NATO countries.
President Yanukovych and his party never supported Nato membership so a decision to drop its bid for membership wasn't unexpected. While its true that Nato membership didn't have broad popular support, its also cover for dropping their bid. To be fair, Ukraine hadn't even been offered a Membership Action Plan, instead this happened in Talinn. To be fair again, Russia opposition probably was one reason that a MAP wasn't given to Ukraine.
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