A package that included the removal of the requirement for a Membership Action Plan has been put forward. Read more at straitstimes.com.
on the eve of a summit in Lithuania, but appeared to remove one key hurdle to Kyiv joining the alliance.
Nato members in Eastern Europe, under Moscow’s thumb for decades in the last century, have backed Ukraine’s stance. But others, such as the United States and Germany, have been more cautious, wary of any move that they fear could draw Nato into a direct conflict with Russia, and potentially spark a global war.
President Vladimir Putin has cited Nato’s expansion towards Russia’s borders over the past two decades as a reason for his decision to send his armed forces into Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022. Ukraine’s eastern allies demand that Vilnius go beyond the 2008 declaration, and the issue may again be left for leaders to resolve. Two European diplomats said positions remained entrenched and little progress had been made over the weekend.Standing beside Mr Stoltenberg, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said a prospect of membership was extremely important to Ukraine, which had been “heroically fighting the Russian monster for almost one and a half years”.
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