2024-07-10 19:25:46
The country’s president said after the first day of the NATO summit that work on harmonizing the communique is still ongoing.
“Regarding Ukraine, it was agreed that the text will reflect the principle of irreversibility, that Ukraine’s integration into NATO is an irreversible process and that it is a kind of bridge from the current situation to future membership.
Of course, for those who want an invitation here and now, it is too small, but this is the compromise that NATO could have offered to the Ukrainians, and the Ukrainian side agrees with this version of the text,” said G. Nausėda.
The head of the country mentioned that NATO leaders agreed on 40 billion dollars of support to Ukraine, due to the innovations of NATO’s air defense rotary model.
“We are moving forward compared to the Vilnius text, but the Vilnius meeting was mentioned many times today during my conversations with the leaders – that it was a really good base on which we can build new bricks, a new text,” the head of the country is confident.
However, noting that Ukraine will basically hear nothing more at this meeting than what it heard in Vilnius, G. Nausėda emphasized that only such a compromise can currently be agreed upon by the NATO countries.
“NATO is the kind of organization that wants that fifth article to be credible, because it is the whole essence of the NATO system – the principle of collective defense, which must be sacredly respected. (…)
In this respect, NATO is apparently not prepared to say more than it has said today – in other words, any commitment to Article Five would mean taking action in the here and now.
How to do this, if even sending troops to Ukraine is still taboo on a NATO scale? At this point, it remains only to state that this is the best common denominator that can be achieved at the moment”, assessed G. Nausėda.
“The position of the United States on this issue plays a very important role,” he added.
When asked at that time what kind of background for the NATO summit is created by the confusion prevailing in the USA regarding the health of the US President Joe Biden and his chances of seeking re-election, Mr. Nausėda assured that Mr. Biden looked good.
“J.Biden looks very good and his speech was really inspiring. If someone was looking for some signs of physical weakness, they should have been disappointed, because the speech was good, fundamental, and aimed at the fact that we will support Ukraine and that V. Putin cannot win the war in Ukraine, that V. Putin is not winning the war in Ukraine because he is suffering huge losses and is fighting and waging war there much longer than he wanted,” he assessed.
In addition, G. Nausėda noticed that the era of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is also coming to an end.
“He received a significant US award on that occasion and gave a really, really good speech himself, and he proved once again that he is a true leader who is able to find and see every NATO country in the face of so many challenges in NATO.”
It’s no secret that Jens was also very favorable to Lithuania, we were always looking for a solution, he always tried to make those decisions, which had to be painstakingly coordinated at NATO summits, a little more favorable to NATO’s eastern flank, that is, to the needs of all of us,” said G. Takes a nap.
The NATO summit in Washington takes place on July 9-11.
2024-07-10 19:25:46