BUENOS AIRES, December 12. /TASS/. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said his country would not support Ukraine’s accession to the North Atlantic Alliance, at least as long as he serves as the head of government.

"As long as I hold the post of prime minister, I will never support Ukraine’s accession to NATO," the Slovak prime minister told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo in an interview while on an official visit to Brasilia.

However, Fico pledged to support Ukraine’s move to join the European Union upon resolving the conflict.

At a meeting with the Foreign Ministry on June 14, Putin set out the country’s conditions for settling the situation in Ukraine. Among them are the withdrawal of the Ukrainian armed forces from Donbass and Novorossiya and Kiev’s refusal to join NATO. In addition, Russia wants all Western sanctions against it lifted and demands that Ukraine commit to a non-aligned and nuclear-free status. The rights, freedoms and interests of its Russian-speaking population need to be ensured, too.

On December 8, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated that Moscow was open to talks on Ukraine, while in order to get on the peace track, it would be enough for Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to cancel his decree banning any talks with Russia and give instructions to resume dialogue based on the Istanbul agreements, while taking into account the actual situation on the ground.