Ukraine applied to join the alliance in September. Read more at straitstimes.com.
at the next Nato summit meeting in mid-July, with the United States, Germany and France resisting pressure from central and Eastern European allies to provide any detailed “road map” toward membership, Western officials said following a meeting of Nato foreign ministers this week.
The debate was one focus of the meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels this week, as it was for the previous such meeting held in Bucharest, Romania, in November. Ukraine applied to join the alliance in September, but Nato officials understood the application to be a question for a more peaceful future.
“We’ve got several weeks of hard negotiations ahead to close those gaps and craft a political outcome,” one Western official said. “Our focus right now is relentlessly on doing what needs to be done to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian aggression, and indeed to put it in a position to retake more of the territory that’s been seized from it by Russia,” he said. “That’s our intense focus.”
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