European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday she felt that EU governments were not ready to give Ukraine a date for membership despite a demand to do so from ‌President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky repeated on Saturday that he needed a date as part of security guarantees for a final peace package with Russia.

“My feeling is that the member states are not ready to give a concrete date,” Kallas told a panel at the Munich Security Conference. “There’s a lot of work to be done.”

Ukrainian EU membership in 2027 was pencilled into a 20-point ⁠peace plan discussed between the United States, Ukraine and the European Union, diplomats have said, as a measure ‌to ensure Ukraine’s economic prosperity after the war ends.

But many EU governments believe that date, or any other fixed date, is completely unrealistic because EU accession is a merit-based process, ‌moving forward only when there is progress in adjusting a country’s laws to EU standards.