NATO Invites Ukraine To Join Once “Conditions Are Met”

July 11, 2023 Politics, Ukraine

NATO has extended an invitation to Ukraine to join the defense alliance, but only once all 31 members of the alliance have agreed to it and the conditions have been met, Stoltenberg said at a press conference today. “We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met,” NATO said in an official statement.

In the meantime, Stoltenberg said that allies had reduced the bureaucratic threshold for Ukraine to join NATO. Allies had agreed to remove a step that required a “membership action plan,” a series of programs the applying nation adopts that address political, economic, defense, resource, security and legal issues in preparation for future membership.

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NATO allies have agreed to simplify the process of Ukraine’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said .

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