The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas criticized this Tuesday that the NATO has raised a series of conditions in order to consider Kyiv’s candidacy to join the body and has stressed that “it seems that no provision to invite Ukraine to NATO or to make it a member of the Alliance”. “It is absurd and unprecedented that a calendar is not set neither for invitation nor for the accession of Ukraine while at the same time vague statements are issued about ‘conditions’ even for inviting Ukraine,” Zelensky said, before stressing that “this means that a window of opportunity is being left to haggle over Ukraine’s NATO membership in negotiations with Russia.

Thus, he stressed that “for Russia this means motivation to continue their terrorism” and has stated that “uncertainty is weakness”. social Twitter. “We value our allies. We value our shared security and always value open conversation. Ukraine will be represented at the NATO summit in Vilnius, because it is about respect, but also Ukraine deserves respect. Now, on the way to Vilnius, we have received signals that statements without Ukraine are being discussed,” he concluded.

Zelensky’s words came shortly after the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, it will advance that the allied leaders will send a “clear and positive” message to Zelensky about the way forward for Ukraine in its aspirations to join NATO. “I hope they agree on the need to bring Ukraine closer to NATO and withdraw the Membership Action Plan (MAP),” he argued.

Without wanting to reel off the points of the statement, Stoltenberg has assumed that the allies will withdraw the counseling program for accession, a plan with which it offers practical assistance and support to candidate countries to join the bloc. In the case of Ukraine, the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the large-scale invasion of 2022 has led to maintaining a close relationship that makes this program lose some sense, for which he has pointed out that Ukraine’s entry process “It will go from having two steps to just one.”

Hours earlier, the US National Security adviser, Jake Sullivanhad indicated that the allies will give “a united and positive signal” about a path for Ukraine’s entry into the Alliance during the summit, although he ruled out that “a calendar” will come with it. “I can’t put a schedule, I don’t think that’s going to come out of there,” she asserted. He also stressed that during the summit “the path for Ukraine’s future accession to NATO will be discussed”, before noting that Kyiv “still has to take more steps on the path of reform” in order to join the bloc. “From our perspective, it is the job of the alliance and Ukraine to prepare that path of reform and then for Ukraine to work on it,” she concluded.