Ukraine Denied NATO Membership

Ukraine Denied NATO Membership

July 13, 2023

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The carefully-crafted sentence is the outcome of intensive negotiations among the alliance’s 31 members.

While all allies agree Ukraine cannot join NATO while the war against Russia is ongoing, many of Kyiv’s partners had pushed for a strong political gesture at the summit, saying that it is on the path toward membership. Washington and Berlin, however, opposed giving Kyiv concrete pledges.

Washington and Berlin made clear there would be no budging from their position that Ukraine could not be given an unconditional promise of admission to the alliance — instead they are focusing on helping Ukraine defeat Russia. Both Germany and France pledged large weapons packages for Kyiv during the summit.

“Look, we’ve already said that Ukraine’s place in the future is going to be in the alliance at some point,” John Kirby, the U.S. National Security Council spokesperson, said in Washington. “They’ve got reforms they have to work out. Rule of law, good governance, political reforms that need to be done, and they’re at war right now … Eventually, yes, NATO will be in the forefront for them, but now is not the time for that.”

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius was also cautious about the terms being offered to Ukraine.

“Everybody already said and emphasized over the last one-and-a-half years that the future of Ukraine is in NATO,” he told a forum at the NATO meeting. “There is no doubt about it. It’s only an issue of the way to go there. There are certain preconditions to be fulfilled. There are certain circumstances we need to make that step.”

The 90-point communiqué also included an “enduring commitment” that member countries will spend “at least” 2 percent of their Gross Domestic Product on defense. “In many cases, expenditure beyond 2% of GDP will be needed in order to remedy existing shortfalls.”

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