2023-08-17 17:29:14
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reiterated this Thursday that the Alliance’s position on the war in Ukraine and the territorial integrity of this country has not changed and assured that the path to peace is military support.
Stoltenberg’s chief of staff, Stian Jenssen, had hinted in a debate at a political forum in Norway on Tuesday that a possible solution to the conflict was for Ukraine to “cedis” territory in exchange for joining NATO.
Jenssen himself rectified those statements a day later, considering them a “error” and stating that they are not “I should have done”, while a NATO spokesman told EFE in Brussels that the Alliance’s position is “clara” and that supports “sovereignty and territorial integrity” from that country.
“It is Ukraine and only Ukraine that can decide when the conditions for a negotiation are in place and that can decide at a negotiating table what is an acceptable solution. Our task is to support them“Stoltenberg said today in the Arendal week, the same political forum in which Jenssen, a Norwegian like him, had spoken two days before.
Stoltenberg argued that in order to achieve peace “lasting and just” the road is “without a doubt” military support for the regime of Volodimir Zelensky.
kyiv, for its part, had considered yesterday “unacceptable” Jenssen’s initial suggestion and criticized that a NATO representative is supporting “a narrative of a territorial cession” what “supports Russia’s positions,” according to the spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oleg Nikolenko, in statements collected by the Ukrinform agency.
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