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The summit that North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be held next week at Vilnius, Lithuaniawill reaffirm that Ukraine in the future it will be a member of the military alliance, said this Friday the general secretary of the bloc, Jens Stoltenberg.
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“I hope that the allied leaders reaffirm that Ukraine will become a member of the NATO and unite to bring Ukraine closer to its goal“, said stoltenberg.
However, he added that “we are still consulting on the exact formulation” in which this possibility will be expressed.
Ukraine asks that the NATO announce at the summit Vilnius clear commitments on the path to accession to the transatlantic Military Alliance, step that should occur once the current war with Russia.
In this table, the countries of the NATO seek common ground on the security guarantees requested by Ukraine.
Stoltenberg also said this Friday that in Vilnius the first meeting of the new NATO-Ukraine Council. It is a body formed by the 31 most allied countries Ukraineand in the vision of stoltenberg It will serve to bring the parties together.
“Russia has sown death and destruction in the hearts of Europein an attempt to destroy Ukraine and divide the NATO”, said Stoltenberg, for whom the summit of Vilnius “will send a clear message”: the alliance is united and aggression never pays”.
Russia had warned that the eventual accession of Ukraine to the NATO it was one ‘Red line‘, considering that this gesture would constitute a threat to their own sovereignty.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyplans to close this Friday a tour of several countries with a meeting in istanbul with the president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Source: Elcomercio
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