Expectations that NATO will quickly ignore Ukraine’s invitation for membership

In a letter to his colleagues in NATO NATO Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Siba said before the meeting that the invitation would remove one of the main arguments Russia uses for waging war, which is to prevent… Ukraine Since joining the alliance.

But there is no indication of the availability of the necessary consensus among NATO’s 32 member states to make such a decision at a meeting of foreign ministers in Brusselssaid the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“It will take weeks and months to reach a consensus,” a senior NATO diplomat said Monday. “I don’t see this happening tomorrow and I would be very surprised.”

A senior US official said the meeting would focus on increasing support for Ukraine so that it would be in the strongest possible position next year “when it enters possible negotiations”.

“The best way to do that is to increase funds, ammunition and mobilization,” said the official, who requested anonymity.

And he announced US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced yesterday, Monday, a new arms package for Ukraine worth $725 million.

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Ukraine believes that NATO membership is the best guarantee for its future security. According to article five of Mutual Defense Treaty For NATO, members agree to treat any attack on one member as an attack on all, and agree to help each other.

This was proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr GreenHe said in an interview with Sky News on Friday that bringing the territories currently controlled by his government “under the NATO umbrella” would stop the “hot phase” of the war.

His comments come as Ukraine faces a harsh winter on the battlefield, with progress being made Russian forces To the east, Russian airstrikes are targeting the country’s failing power grid.

While NATO has announced that Ukraine will join its ranks and that the country’s path to NATO membership is “irreversible,” it has not extended an invitation or set a timetable for membership.

Any such decision will depend primarily on the dominant power in NATO, namely the United States, and therefore this decision will be close to Trump’s competence when he returns to the post of US president next month.

Officials of the current administration of the President know Joe Biden Any major move regarding Ukraine needs to be supported by the next government to ensure lasting impact.

Trump criticized the amount of US aid given to Kiev and said he would end the war in a day. But he did not specify a detailed plan for how to deal with the conflict.

Some NATO member countries, such as Hungary, have publicly expressed their opposition to Ukraine’s entry into the alliance. But other countries have also indicated they don’t believe the timing is right, such as the current US and German governments, according to diplomats.