BRATISLAVA, Slovakia: Russia does not have a veto on Ukraine's eventual membership of the Western defence alliance NATO, its chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday (Jun 6). 'All
, its chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday .
The NATO chief was in the Slovakia capital Bratislava for talks with the presidents of the alliance's eastern flank, the so-called Bucharest Nine group. The Bratislava talks came ahead of next month's NATO summit in Vilnius, where Stoltenberg said the alliance will take"very significant" decisions. "We must also agree a stronger commitment to increase defence investments, with two percent of GDP as a minimum," he added.
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