Katerina Chernovol 07/06/23 UNIAN
The states are committed to NATO’s open door policy
The United States of America is committed to NATO’s open door policy. The decision on Ukraine’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance will be made with the consent of all member countries after the reforms are carried out, and Ukraine will meet all the requirements of the bloc.
“We have made it very clear that we are committed to NATO’s open door policy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing.
At the same time, Jean-Pierre reminded that the decision on membership in the Alliance is made between 31 members of the bloc, as well as the country applying for membership. “Therefore, in this case, when it comes to Ukraine, we discussed with our NATO allies and Ukraine how we can collectively support Ukraine’s aspirations for Euro-Atlantic integration,” she stressed.
The White House spokeswoman did not go into details of the diplomatic talks, but recalled US President Joe Biden’s statement that “Ukraine will have to reform to meet the same standards as any other NATO country before joining (the Alliance – ed.)”.
“The US President believes that Ukraine can do it,” summed up Karine Jean-Pierre.
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British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley and his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau called for accelerating Ukraine’s entry into NATO , similar to the procedure by which Finland joined the bloc. The British minister stressed that the Ukrainian military has “great experience in using standard NATO equipment, NATO doctrine and NATO tactics.”
Earlier, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said at the NATO summit in Vilnius, the countries will agree on such obligations to Ukraine that will not disappoint Kiev. In addition, he expects certain states to come to the summit with their own additional support packages.
Biden’s statement that “Ukraine will have to reform to meet the same standards as any other NATO country before joining (the Alliance – ed.)”.
Not necessarily true. Montenegro for example, joined in 2017 but only paid about 1.4% of GDP for defense appropriations the 3 years leading up to their joining. And they may not have had territory occupied by Urgo-finn Mongols but the KGB did set up shop there and almost pulled off a coup.
Biden is always full of crap. We can only discuss the amount of crap he’s into
Biden remains Ukraine’s largest military supporter by far.
Ukraine should have tried to join when it had the chance instead of holding ‘f-you NATO’ signs up when it was being discussed and President Bush came for a visit and then voted in Yanukovich who vowed to keep Ukraine out of it.
Big mistake that and something Biden had nothing to do with
Interesting you lump 1990 and 2010 together in one sentence about NATO. Things in Ukraine changed just a bit over that time…
Ukraine thought they were getting a MAP in 2008 and this is the first time I heard about F-you NATO signs in 1990 and I’ve been doing this for a long time. Care to prove it?
They didn’t get a map because Germany vetoed it.
My point was Ukraine thought they were going to get a MAP, That’s all. He said Ukraine should have tried to join. Nobody was talking about why Ukraine didn’t get it…just Mike 🙂
Somebody had to bring it up. 😎
Nice theory. But RuSSia would already have invaded back then the day Ukraine would have declared the intention to join.
They rather got the ass open instead of the door open. Once Ukraine trashed RuSSia there will be no need no more to join this club of pussies.
What will NATO be good for when mafia land’s military and economy are smoldering ruins? This is not a rhetorical question.
We won’t need NATO for at least 20 years after Ukraine is finished with the war criminals.