The tweet so roiled the White House that U.S. officials considered scaling back the \u0027invitation\u0027 for Kyiv to join.
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The Ukrainian leader’s public rebuke of the alliance stunned those assembled in the summit venue, an exposition hall on the outskirts of the Lithuanian capital, leaving the U.S. delegation “furious,” according to one official familiar with the situation. Like others, the person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden arrive for a working session on Ukraine at the NATO summit, in Vilnius on July 12, 2023.At a summit in Bucharest, Romania, in 2008, Ukraine and Georgia were offered eventual NATO membership, provided they fulfilled a slew of requirements first. Ukrainians complain that 15 years later, they are still facing a host of reform demands, many of which aren’t specific.
“Some wanted to withdraw the reference to ‘invitation,'” or find another place to put that word, said one of the senior policymakers, a NATO diplomat who took part in the talks. French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speak to reporters before their talks Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.Inside the leaders’ room, there was more back and forth with advisers than is typical for these types of highly scripted summits, officials said.
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