NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte avoided addressing Ukraine's potential membership in the alliance, focusing instead on bolstering Ukraine's capabilities with more weapons for upcoming peace talks with Russia. This comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested NATO membership could end the ongoing conflict.
BYBRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Tuesday sidestepped questions about Ukraine 's possible membership in the military alliance , saying that the priority now must be to strengthen the country's hand in any future peace talks with Russia by sending it more weapons.
"The front is not moving eastwards. It is slowly moving westwards," Rutte said."So we have to make sure that Ukraine gets into a position of strength, and then it should be for the Ukrainian government to decide on the next steps, in terms of opening peace talks and how to conduct them." Zelenskyy argued that once open conflict ends, any proposal to join NATO could be extended to all parts of the country that fall under internationally recognized borders.
Ukrainian officials made it clear Tuesday they won't countenance any half measures or stopgap solutions on NATO membership. The Foreign Ministry statement called the Budapest agreement a"monument to short-sightedness in making strategic security decisions." "This document, this paper, failed to secure Ukrainian security and transatlantic security. So we must avoid to repeat such mistakes," he said in English.
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