Kiev is expected to push for NATO membership at the Alliance’s foreign ministers’ meeting

Less than two months before Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency, Ukraine is lobbying NATO members to extend an invitation to join, but the alliance’s foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels today, are expected to delay making a decision. “The invitation for Ukraine to join NATO is necessary for our survival,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said over the weekend. “But we have no illusions, there are still countries that are cautious,” he added. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiha is expected to remind his 32 counterparts of Kiev’s wishes during a working dinner this evening. In addition, in a statement, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also referred to the Budapest Memorandum, with which Kiev renounced in 1994 the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world in exchange for guarantees for its security, even from Russia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union . “Today […]
Source: News Beast

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