The issue of granting Ukraine an Action Plan for NATO membership is no longer on the agenda. This was stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba after a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Commission in Brussels.
Commenting on the statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on the development of a multi-year support program for Ukraine, which will help it get closer to NATO, Kuleba explained that this is not a MAP.
The MAP issue has been removed from the agenda because we have submitted an application. This is an additional strengthening of NATO’s comprehensive assistance package. And it cannot be a substitute for membership and cannot be a condition for membership. This is a mechanism of practical assistance that NATO wants to make as powerful as possible, and in parallel, the process of making political decisions regarding Ukraine’s membership in NATO is underway,” the Foreign Minister said.
NATO Foreign Ministers supported the development of a multi-year support program for Ukraine, which will help it move closer to the North Atlantic Alliance. Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the Alliance, spoke about this after a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Commission.
Commenting on this decision, Kuleba noted that this is not about MAP. The minister also said that at the meeting he expressed Ukraine’s position regarding the argument that membership is not in time:
My message was: Vilnius 2023 is an opportunity to correct the mistakes of Bucharest in 2008.
Kuleba stressed that at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Ukraine definitely expects formalized decisions.
These should be decisions bringing closer Ukraine’s membership in NATO. We are not looking for solutions that only state the state of the relationship. Repeating once again that NATO’s doors remain open will not be enough, he added.
Recall, according to media reports, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg asks member countries to allocate 500 million euros per year for the Comprehensive Assistance Package to Ukraine, due to which it receives non-lethal assistance.
Source: Racurs
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