KIEV, April 23 – Ukrainian membership of NATO will be decided by a nationwide referendum, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"The issue of Ukraine joining NATO is a fundamental one, I'll hold a referendum, let the people decide," the Twitter page of iTele French TV quotes Poroshenko as saying in an interview on Wednesday.

He said that Ukrainian membership of the European Union is the priority as Ukraine is a European country and "Europe can't be complete without Ukraine."