Ukraine's NATO membership is now being finalized by North Atlantic Treaty Organization members. This was confirmed by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
He said that before November ends, a NATO-Ukraine meeting will be held in which allies will discuss how the European country can completely gain its membership. They will specifically discuss recommendations for reforms that Kyiv must implement if it wants to join the international alliance.
Ukraine's NATO Membership Being Finalized
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky (R) shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden following the announcement of the G7 nations' joint declaration for the support of Ukraine on July 12, 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The event took place at the 2023 NATO Summit.
Jens Stoltenberg is quite sure regarding their decision to reinforce the collective agreement among NATO allies that Ukraine will soon be a member of the intergovernmental military organization.
However, he clarified that giving Ukraine a full membership during its ongoing conflict with Russia is impractical. Although this is the case, Stoltenberg still emphasized their efforts to bring Ukraine closer to the alliance.
"The allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of NATO," said the NATO secretary-general via Yahoo News.
"At (the NATO-Ukraine) meeting, we will agree on recommendations for Ukrainians ... reforms, as we continue to support Kyiv on this path to NATO membership," he added.
The upcoming NATO-Ukraine Council meeting is scheduled in Brussels on Wednesday, November 29. This conference is a big deal since it will be the first at the foreign ministers' level.
Even Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will attend the meeting. But will a NATO membership help Ukraine, or will it only make the war against Russia worse?
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Russia Urging Ukraine Not to Join NATO
A drone flying a giant Ukrainian national flag passes over the Motherland monument during Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to Business Insider, a Ukrainian politician claimed that Russia had already proposed ending the war so that Ukraine would leave its NATO membership ambitions.
David Arkhamia, the Servant of the People party leader, said the Russian government offered its war resolution in spring 2022. He claimed that peace talks happened during the early stages of the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian official explained that Russia wants Ukraine to take a neutral position. However, he said that if the European nation considers shifting towards neutrality, Kyiv will have to make constitutional changes.
Aside from these complicated adjustments that Ukraine must make, Arakhamia said they don't trust Russia since the Kremlin tends to double-cross such a deal if ever it happens.
The Ukrainian politician said that they don't have any trust in the Russian government and that it will end the invasion if Ukraine abandons its NATO membership goals.
He added that they would only consider taking a neutral position if the Kremlin kept its word of ending the war.
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