President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskayte has said that for today it is necessary to focus on reforms to achieve NATO standards by the country.

"The president of Ukraine has correctly noted that the main agreement on NATO clearly states that only democratic countries that respect the rule of law and respect human rights can file the application to become a member of NATO," Grybauskayte said at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kharkiv on Friday.

According to her, the Alliance unites states that follow democratic values, and these criteria are similar to the criteria for membership in the European Union.

"We are not only talking about filing an official application, we are talking about the implementation of those reforms that are important. For instance, it took another ten years of very complicated reforms for Lithuania after filing an application," Grybauskayte said.