Kyiv is preparing political and practical cooperation packages, which it proposes to discuss at the summit in Lithuania.
In the context of the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Ukraine is preparing political and practical cooperation packages. This was said by Ukrainian Ambassador to NATO Natalia Galibarenko, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
“I conditionally divide this into packages with which we are going to the summit. The package is political. The point is that we want to bring our political relations to a new institutional basis. Here we are talking about turning, for example, the current commission of Ukraine – NATO in the Ukraine-NATO council, which will allow us to make some decisions together with the members of the Alliance, and not separately,” he said.
Speaking about the practical package, the ambassador explained that the idea is that a multi-year plan will be created for Ukraine, which will help increase interoperability with NATO, in particular, we are talking about assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We are also talking about a significant increase in funding for the current comprehensive aid package.
“If today, first-aid kits, winter clothes, anti-drones for the Armed Forces were purchased as part of a comprehensive aid package, now we say that the following projects will be more modest and long-term nature. We are talking about projects such as humanitarian demining, medical rehabilitation. And we will also gradually move to NATO-standard weapons,” explained Galibarenko.
The NATO summit in Vilnius will be held on July 11-12.
Eastern European countries are pushing for concrete steps toward Ukraine’s NATO membership, including a potential commitment to the timing of its accession.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is doing everything to make a decision at the NATO summit in Vilnius that “works” for our state.
Source: korrespondent
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