The meeting of NATO defence ministers comes just under a month before U.S. President Joe Biden and his counterparts gather for a summit in Lithuania in a symbolic show of support for Ukraine
NATO defence ministers gathered Thursday to discuss future relations with Ukraine as Russia’s war on the country thwarts its hopes of joining the world’s biggest security alliance soon.
NATO agreed in 2008 that Ukraine would join the organization one day, but did not set a date for it to start membership talks. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said there is no consensus for the country to join while it is at war with Russia. Stoltenberg said that he expects the 31-nation alliance to “agree a multiyear program where we help to move Ukraine to transition from old standards, equipment, procedures, doctrines to NATO standards and become fully interoperable with NATO.”
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