Kyiv, Dec. 15 (Interfax) - Less than a third of Ukrainian citizens support the Ukrainian accession to NATO, while about 60 percent raise objections, representatives of the Institute of Society Transformation told a Monday press conference in Kyiv with reference to a nationwide poll.
Some 30.1 percentof the respondents supported the Ukrainian integration into NATO; 59.6 percentvoiced the opposite opinion; and 10.2 percentfailed to answer the question.
The absolute majority of the respondents (82.4 percent) said that a referendum on Ukraine’s possible accession to NATO should be held. Some 8.8 percentof the respondents said that the decision should be made by the Ukrainian parliament, and another 8.8 percentsuggested other options or failed to give an answer.
A total of 16.8 percentsupported a military union between Ukraine and Russia, and 44.6 percentsaid that Ukraine should be a neutral state and abstain from membership in any military unions.
Some 24.7 percentsaid that Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine would be the best form of military-political cooperation, and another 13.9 percentfailed to answer the question.
The sociologists polled 2,000 citizens throughout Ukraine on November 13-24. The margin of error is within 2.4 percent.
The research was conducted by a group of heads of analytical, expert and university sociological centers from various regions of Ukraine on the order of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and with the assistance of the Norwegian embassy in Kyiv.
