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| State Department says that Ukraine will not join NATO until the conflict is over. |
| 2024-04-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Not mentioned: a requirement to win the conflict. [Regnum] Ukraine's accession to NATO can only take place after the end of the current conflict, State Department press service chief Matthew Miller said at a briefing on April 8. “Ultimately, this process (Ukraine’s accession to NATO - editor’s note) will move forward after the end of this conflict,” he said. As Regnum reported, on the same day, the US Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Alliance, Julianne Smith, said that following the NATO summit in July 2024 in Washington, a concrete result is expected for Ukraine to strengthen Kiev’s work with the bloc. She explained that we are talking about providing additional resources for Ukraine, as well as “institutionalizing some bilateral support.” Earlier, the American edition of The New York Times, citing sources, wrote that the leaders of NATO countries at the upcoming meeting in Washington do not intend to invite Ukraine to the alliance because of the collective security agreement, since the military bloc is afraid of being drawn directly into the largest armed conflict since 1945 on the European continent. Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Egor Chernev, in turn, called on NATO to at least “reserve” a place for Kiev. Military expert Alexander Khramchikhin, in an interview with Regnum news agency, noted that this call voiced by Chernev will remain unfulfilled. On April 5, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that NATO representatives are discussing the possibility of territorial concessions from Kiev to Russia in exchange for security guarantees for Ukraine and its entry into the military bloc. According to the publication, this possibility is not discussed during official discussions, but is discussed during informal conversations, which makes this option increasingly real, especially before the upcoming US presidential elections. Related: NATO: 2024-04-08 MP says Germany not doing enough to prosecute Iraq, Syria war criminals NATO: 2024-04-08 Russian Perspective: Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (7 April 2024) NATO: 2024-04-08 NZZ presented four scenarios for the participation of the French army in the conflict in Ukraine |
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