NATO will extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the military alliance when “member states agree and conditions are met,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The head of NATO announced three measures agreed by the members of the Alliance at the Vilnius summit on Tuesday:
- “New multi-year support program for Ukraine”
- “New Ukraine-NATO Council, tomorrow we have the first meeting”
- “We confirmed that (Ukraine) will become a member of NATO, and we agreed to abandon the road map, this will be one step. We will invite Ukraine to NATO when it fulfills the conditions”
“This is a strong and positive signal for Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
NATO leaders are meeting in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday for a summit from which Ukraine hopes to receive assurances that it will be accepted as a member of the alliance after the end of the war started by Russia.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it would be “absurd” if NATO leaders did not offer his country a concrete prospect of membership during a summit meeting, after the alliance leader said he would send a “positive message” to Kyiv.
In the evening, the Kyiv leader will take part in a working dinner with NATO leaders, and on Wednesday he will hold bilateral talks with US President Joe Biden.
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