{"id":1173283,"date":"2025-06-24T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1173283"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:18:38","slug":"nato-secretary-general-announces-plan-to-strengthen-ukraine-s-path-to-membership-in-summit-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/nato-secretary-general-announces-plan-to-strengthen-ukraine-s-path-to-membership-in-summit-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Secretary General Announces Plan to Strengthen Ukraine\u2019s Path to Membership in Summit Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has announced that the decision to be adopted by the leaders of NATO member states at the summit in The Hague will mark the next step in building a &#8220;bridge&#8221; between Ukraine and the Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the start of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in The Hague, Rutte emphasized that all previous pro-Ukrainian decisions of the Alliance \u2014 including those made at the 2023 Washington Summit \u2014 remain valid, and this will be indirectly reaffirmed in the final communiqu\u00e9 of the current summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There will be an important reference to Ukraine, which builds on the Washington Summit decision confirming Ukraine\u2019s irreversible path to NATO,&#8221; Rutte said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He did not clarify what exactly constitutes that indirect confirmation, but it is known that the summit\u2019s declaration is expected to include a commitment to financing Ukraine\u2019s defense through the defense budgets of NATO member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We are building a bridge between Ukraine and NATO, just as the Washington decision laid out,&#8221; Rutte added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof also stated that he considers Ukraine part of the Euro-Atlantic family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the summit, Secretary General Rutte had already hinted at what the decision on Ukraine would include.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/the-netherlands-signs-contract-with-ukrainian-companies-to-produce-600-000-drones\/\">The Netherlands Signs Contract with Ukrainian Companies to Produce 600,000 Drones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has announced that the decision to be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1162438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36415,55,36537],"tags":[76,78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1173283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-ukraine-en","category-11473-ukraine-en-news-en-4","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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