Off today to the second day of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. With the Ukrainian president Zelensky who thundered before his arrival: " Unheard of and absurd that there is no timetable for Ukraine's entry into the Alliance ".
In fact, the general secretary Stoltenberg froze expectations, specifying that there is no "timeline for the entry process" and that " the invitation will be extended to Kiev when the conditions are right ".
A "brake", therefore, on Kiev's entry into the Alliance which even Kuleba did not like: «NATO – specified the Ukrainian foreign minister – shouldn't keep our country in limbo when it comes to membership» . And he added: «The conditions for Ukraine's accession to NATO are unknown. We don't know what they are. There are none. That is the question. That is, when will the conditions be met? What are the conditions? Who should formulate them?».
On the sidelines of the summit, the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni met the British prime minister Sunak and the Turkish president Erdogan: "Cohesion is the most effective weapon - she specified -".
Moscow reacted harshly to the summit, with Russian Defense Minister Shoigu threatening: "If the US supplies cluster munitions, the Russian armed forces will be forced to use similar weapons."
Hence the words of Kremlin spokesman Peskov: "It is an anti-Russian summit".
THE TALKS – "From today's talks I understand that the necessary conditions for entry into NATO will be achieved when there is peace in Ukraine," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “We understand that some are afraid to talk about membership now – he continued – because nobody wants a world war and it is understandable. But we need to have signals."
(Unioneonline/vl)