Today, 10 July 2024, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that Allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of NATO. However, he stressed that the specific timing of accession remains a subject of further discussions and consideration.
NATO members agree that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance, but the exact timing is still uncertain, as emphasized by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
All members of the Alliance agree that Ukraine will become a member, but it is too early to say when exactly this will happen, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg emphasized.
“… to have a new Ally, to invite a new Ally, we need consensus. And all Allies agree that Ukraine will become a member, but it is too early to say when exactly that will happen. I can say that we are getting closer and closer to NATO membership with Ukraine, and we are doing so with concrete actions. Because Ukraine’s membership, of course, depends partly on the language, the wording that we will agree on later today, and the NATO declaration on Ukraine’s membership, but it is also very much about the concrete actions that we are taking to bring Ukraine closer to membership,” Stoltenberg said.
According to him, the fact that we will now have a NATO command of 700 people based in Germany ... as well as centers in the eastern part of the Alliance to facilitate training and assistance to Ukraine in the security sector.
“This will give us a stronger NATO structure for what we do, and also help bring Ukraine closer to our membership. The long-term financial pledge, everything we do on interoperability… when NATO members supply, for example, F16s to Ukraine, we also provide training doctrines, and all of these are examples of how we are bringing Ukraine closer to NATO… so that they become members when the time comes,” he concluded.
