NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says he had proposed Ukraine could skip a Membership Action Plan – a process for meeting political, economic and military goals.
NATO leaders gather for a summit in Vilnius on Tuesday, July 11, seeking to overcome divisions on Ukraine’s membership bid after a deal to lift Turkey’s block on Sweden joining the military alliance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has been invited to attend the Vilnius gathering, has been pressing NATO to give his country a clear pathway to membership in the summit communique so that it can join soon after the war is over. NATO members in Eastern Europe have backed Kyiv’s stance, arguing that bringing Ukraine under NATO’s collective security umbrella is the best way to deter Russia from attacking again.
Assertions that “Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO” and that it will join “when conditions allow” are among the phrases being discussed for the final text, diplomats say.Negotiations have also focused on what conditions Ukraine would have to meet to join NATO and how its progress should be tracked, diplomats say.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday he had proposed Ukraine could skip a Membership Action Plan – a process for meeting political, economic and military goals.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year prompted Nordic neighbours Finland and Sweden to abandon decades of military non-alignment and apply to join NATO. Turkey had accused Sweden of not doing enough to crack down on militants that Ankara sees as terrorists, mainly members of the Kurdistan Workers Party , considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the EU and the United States.
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