At least seven countries have serious doubts about inviting Ukraine to NATO. In addition to the fact that Germany and the US have reservations about extending an invitation to Ukraine, Belgium, Slovenia, and Spain are hiding behind these two countries, reluctant to respond to ... #AssociationwithNATO #Germany #JulianneSmith #NATOUkraine #VictoryPlan #Zelenskyy
Ukraine membership in NATO threatens the Alliance with war. Dozens of foreign policy experts urged members of the North Atlantic Alliance to avoid the issue of Ukraine’s promotion to NATO membership at the summit in Washington on July 9-11. They warn tha... #AssociationwithNATO #NATO #NATOsummit #RussianAggression #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Ukraine approves a plan for reforms necessary to join NATO. The Commission on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration approved the draft of the adapted Annual National Program (ANP) for 2024. This document defines the criteria for Ukraine’s eligibility fo... #AssociationwithNATO #OlhaStefanishyna #ReformsinUkraine #UkraineNATO
Stoltenberg: Ukraine will become a NATO member after reforms are completed and the end of the war. Ukraine will become a member of NATO, but first, it must carry out reforms determined by the member states, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg before a meeting of the North Atlantic Council.... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
NATO is not discussing Ukraine’s membership in exchange for territory, and they want to approve the Ukraine-NATO Council Work Plan by the end of the year. The head of Ukraine’s mission to NATO, Nataliia Galibarenko, claims that there are no discussions at NATO headquarters – neither official nor unofficial – regarding the granting of N... #AssociationwithNATO #NataliiaGalibarenko #UkraineNATO #UkraineNATOCouncil #WarinUkraine
Long-term support for Ukraine’s defense capability and EU access guarantees sustainable long-term business planning. “The issue of security guarantees and long-term support for Ukraine’s defense capability is crucial for business in terms of capabilities and long-term planning. And, of course, all these security gua... #AssociationwithEU #AssociationwithNATO #OlhaStefanishyna #SupportUkraine
A three-element package for Ukraine was approved at the NATO Summit in Vilnius. According to the Secretary General of the bloc, Jens Stoltenberg, the package includes canceling the Membership Action Plan. However, the members failed to agree on inviting Ukraine to the Alliance. A... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #UkraineNATOCouncil
Ukraine’s NATO package will consist of three elements. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke about these in Vilnius. This package was presented for the first time in Oslo at an informal meeting of foreign ministers from NATO member countries. Acco... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
Ukraine will receive consistent support in Vilnius but will not be invited to join the Alliance. According to Politico, Ukraine will most likely receive promises from NATO countries to continue most of the aid the allies are already providing. In addition, it will be offered “a more permane... #AssociationwithNATO #DmytroKuleba #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
Almost 90% of Ukrainians want their country to become a NATO member. According to a study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, most Ukrainians (89%) in all regions of the country favor membership. However, there are also 8% who spoke out against joining th... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOUkraine #SociologicalSurvey
The Parliament of Bulgaria supports Ukraine’s membership in NATO. During President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Bulgaria, the People’s Assembly of Bulgaria voted for a declaration of support for Ukraine’s membership in the North Atlantic Alliance... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #UkrainianPeaceFormula #WarinUkraine
Western diplomats: Ukraine needs a roadmap to join NATO as quickly as possible. Forty-six Western experts, military personnel, and diplomats including former US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Bigen and Special Representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Volker,... #AssociationwithNATO #KurtVolker #NATOsummitVilnius #StephenBigen #UkraineNATO
The German opposition has called for the support of Ukraine’s NATO membership. Germany’s main political opposition force, the CDU/CSU alliance, is calling on the federal government to support the prospect of Ukraine’s membership in NATO ahead of the Vilnius summit, r... #AssociationwithNATO #GermanCDU/CSU #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
The head of the British Ministry of Defense advocates Ukraine’s simplified accession to NATO. British Defense Minister Ben Wallace believes that Ukraine should be able to “skip” the NATO Membership Action Plan on its way to joining the Alliance, reported SKY News. “I think we... #AssociationwithNATO #BenWallace #JamesCleverley #NATOsummitVilnius #UkraineNATO
Macron: NATO should shape the perspective of Ukraine’s accession. On Wednesday, June 28, French President Emmanuel Macron stated the need for the Vilnius NATO summit to form a concrete path to Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance. “We will have to determ... #AssociationwithNATO #EmmanuelMacron #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine
Zelenskyy welcomes the presidents of Poland and Lithuania to Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed security issues with the Presidents of Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, including the military actions at the front, preparations for the N... #AndrzejDuda #AssociationwithNATO #GitanasNauseda #UkrainianPeaceFormula #Zelenskyy
Ukraine has successfully fulfilled all three prerequisites for joining NATO. Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that Ukraine expects to receive guarantees that it will be invited to join the Alliance after the end of the war with Russia at the July NATO summit in Vilnius, ... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine #OleksiyReznikov #WarinUkraine
Only a few countries have taken a cautious position regarding Ukraine’s accession to NATO. The Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Olha Stefanishyna, stated that “a small number” of countries are not ready to give Ukraine more specific promises than... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine #OlhaStefanishyna #UkraineNATOCouncil
Parliamentary committees from 19 NATO countries support Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance. The heads of the Foreign Affairs Committees from the Alliance member countries and Ukraine signed a corresponding joint statement, said Vice-Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Olena Kondratiuk. ̶... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #OlenaKondratiuk #UkraineNATO
Stoltenberg: Ukraine cannot join NATO during the war. During the German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum, NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine’s accession to the North Atlantic Alliance while the war continues is impossible. “The main question ... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Ukraine is preparing a political and operational package for discussion at the NATO summit in Vilnius. Ukrainian Ambassador to NATO Nataliia Galibarenko explained that the political package envisages Ukraine’s desire to bring political relations with the Alliance to a new institutional basis. It ... #AssociationwithNATO #NataliiaGalibarenko #NATOstandards #UkraineNATO
The Ukrainian government voiced its expectations from the Vilnius NATO summit. According to Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanyshyna, it is crucial to get assurances concerning the readiness of NATO member states to support Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Peace Formula. In general, i... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #OlhaStefanishyna #UkraineNATO
Ukraine will not receive an official invitation to join NATO at the Alliance summit in Vilnius. According to WP, there is a consensus on this position among the 31 NATO countries, but there is not absolute unity. Eastern European countries are insisting on setting clear obligations in terms of a... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
The largest group in the European Parliament insists on Ukraine’s accession to NATO. Europe’s largest pan-European party association, the European People’s Party (EPP), has adopted a position document in which it calls on NATO to lay the groundwork for Kyiv’s entry i... #AssociationwithNATO #EuropeanPeopleParty #NATOsummit #UkraineNATO
The Czech Republic and Slovakia will increase their support for Ukraine on its way to EU and NATO membership. In a joint declaration, the presidents of Ukraine, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic have agreed that a sovereign, free, and democratic Ukraine is one of the critical factors in ensuring European secur... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOUkraine #PetrPavel #ZuzanaČaputová
The head of the Ukrainian parliament seeks support from NATO member countries to invite Ukraine to join the Alliance. Ruslan Stefanchuk said the Ukrainian parliament has already sent a letter to the speakers and parliament members from NATO member countries regarding their support. “I have no doubt that we will do ev... #AssociationwithNATO #DoraDuro #RuslanStefanchuk
The Ukrainian Parliament has appealed to the NATO member states to support Ukraine’s accession to the Alliance. Ukrainian Parliament Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk and head parliament members appealed to NATO member states and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly regarding Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance. The... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOandUkraine #RuslanStefanchuk
The B9 considers Russia NATO’s biggest threat and welcomes Ukraine’s accession to the alliance and the EU. Russia is the biggest threat to the security of the Bucharest Nine (B9) countries, which include Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. There... #AssociationwithEU #AssociationwithNATO #BucharestNine
NATO has open doors for Ukraine’s membership in the alliance. The consensus that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance remains in place. Currently, the main focus is to support the country’s struggle for liberation against the Russian military, said... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOandUkraine
The UK voices requirements for Ukraine’s accession to NATO. The political decision on Ukraine’s accession to NATO is inextricably linked with the need for significant defense reforms in the country, said Melinda Simmons, the British ambassador to Ukraine... #AssociationwithNATO #defensereform #MelindaSimmons #NATOandUkraine
The discussion of Ukraine’s NATO membership is underway. The discussion about Ukraine’s future membership in NATO has acquired a formal character. Now this discussion will take place within the framework of the North Atlantic Council at different levels, th... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOandUkraine #NatoMembership
