'The drama here was not just the tension between Kyiv and Washington, it was the tension between the White House and eight other NATO capitals,' expert says.
membership was the main topic on the agenda at the alliance's annual Summit, held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Vilnius, Lithuania, and sources in attendance toldAfter what multiple figures close to the Ukrainian delegation described as intense behind-the-scenes negotiations, the closest Kyiv came to receiving a guarantee of future membership was the inclusion of the word"invitation" in the summit's official communique, which included the sentence:"[NATO] will be in a...
Herbst saw reason to believe that additional allies would begin embracing a more supportive stance towards Ukraine in the near future. "Ukrainians are frustrated," Olena Halushka, co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory, toldin Vilnius."The wording in the communique is vague, meaning that instead of bringing more clarity regarding Ukraine's roadmap to membership, it only added more ambiguity."
"On Monday, the word 'invitation' was not included in the draft communique," Ukrainian member of parliament Oleksiy Honcharenko told."But thankfully our delegation, along with our eastern European allies, sprung into action and managed to get it inserted into the text over the objections of the U.S. and Germany."on Tuesday warning that"uncertainty is weakness" was not part of the push to have"invitation" inserted into the text.
After being given the floor, Ukrainian anti-corruption activist Daria Kaleniuk asked about the specific steps her country would need to take in order to fulfill NATO's demands for membership. "What should I tell my son?" Kaleniuk questioned rhetorically."That President Biden and NATO did not invite Ukraine to NATO because he is afraid of Russia? Afraid of Russia losing? Afraid of Ukraine winning? Or there are backchannel communications with the Kremlin to reach a Minsk-III deal?"
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