Stoltenberg: "we are working on the creation of the NATO-Ukraine Council"

Stoltenberg: "we are working on the creation of the NATO-Ukraine Council"

“We all agree that Ukraine has already moved closer to NATO in the last decade. We agree that the doors of NATO are open, that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance and that it is up to the Alliance and Ukraine to make this decision": declared by the Secretary General of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, at the end of the ministerial summit held in Brussels, underlining that Ukraine will not be invited to join NATO at the summit scheduled for Vilnius in July, but that it hopes to hold the first meeting of the new NATO council on that occasion. Ukraine in the presence of President Zelensky.

“We are working on the creation of a new NATO-Ukraine council in which Ukraine will have an equal position with NATO allies and will be able to decide on security issues of mutual interest. Our hope is to be able to hold the first meeting of the new Council on the occasion of the next NATO summit in Vilnius, with the presence of President Zelensky", concluded Stoltenberg.
“Ukrainian forces have increased pressure on the entire front line and are making stable progress but are encountering resistance from the Russians.” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this at the end of the defense ministerial. “Netherlands and Denmark will begin training Ukrainian F-16 pilots this summer,” he added.

Statements are coming from the war in Ukraine today apparently 'conciliatory' di Maria Zakharova. “I repeat that we are grateful to all countries, to all States and to all public figures”, to “all those who talk about peace, about a (peaceful) solution and who want to make themselves useful” and “there are interesting ideas that can work". Thus the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Zakharova thus responded to the question of a correspondent of the agency at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) whether there were viable ideas in the plans for a peaceful settlement proposed by other countries, Zakharova responded “of course there are”.