It is planned to create a new Ukraine-NATO Council, where the Ukrainian side will be equal to the allies, said the Secretary of the General Alliance.
NATO allies will not discuss an invitation for Ukraine during the Vilnius summit in July. This is what Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a press conference following the two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Friday, June 16.
All allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of NATO. We will not discuss the invitation to the Vilnius summit, but how we will move Ukraine closer to NATO. I am confident that we will find a good solution here,” he said.
According to Stoltenberg, work is underway to create a new Ukraine-NATO Council, where Ukraine will be equal to its allies, will consult and make decisions of common interest.
“Our ambitions are to hold the first meeting of the new Council in Vilnius with President Zelensky,” he said and called the Ukraine-NATO Council “an organism of thirty-two.”
The Secretary General assured that this is a different kind of political cooperation, and “we will bring Ukraine closer to NATO politically.”
Recall that the Secretary General of NATO previously said that Ukraine’s accession to NATO will not take place while the war continues, but that the path to future membership is open.
NATO members intend to offer Ukraine an updated format of relations to show support for its application for membership, but there is no talk of concrete steps for entering the Ukraine in the alliance in the near future.
Earlier, The Washington Post reported that Eastern European countries were pushing for concrete steps toward Ukraine’s NATO membership, including a potential commitment to a timeline for its entry.
Source: korrespondent
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