The question of Ukraine’s NATO membership will not matter if it does not win. military conflict. North Atlantic Alliance to prevent events from developing this way provides Bloc Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday (April 3rd) said unprecedented assistance to Kiev.
“Now the focus should be on Ukraine winning. Without it, the question of its membership will not matter.
To this end, NATO has provided and will continue to provide significant support to Ukraine.
According to him, the Allies provided 65 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine. “I welcome the start of modern tanks and other armored personnel carriers coming to Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
“Historic Week”
Also, Finland’s will be officially The 31st NATO member is at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the alliance countries on April 4 in Brussels.
“A historic week. Tomorrow we will welcome Finland as the 31st member of NATO, making Finland safer and our alliance stronger.
“From tomorrow Finland will become a full-fledged NATO member,” Stoltenberg said.
The Finnish Presidency Office reported that Sauli Niinistö will go to Brussels to attend the official ceremony of joining the alliance.
Also, Sweden already holding Stoltenberg said that he would not be left alone after integration into NATO military structures and Finland’s acceptance into the alliance.
However, he noted that Stockholm’s involvement could take several weeks or months. “Sweden is already integrated into NATO’s military and political structures, it will not be left alone. The fact that this country has not yet joined the alliance does not delay this process.
This process continues from the moment Finland and Sweden were invited to NATO,” he said.
How is NATO expanding?
NATO is a military alliance whose organization forms a collective defense system. Countries wishing to join the bloc must meet certain requirements and go through a multi-step process that includes political dialogue and military integration.
Currently, the North Atlantic Alliance has gone through seven phases of expansion. With the unification of Germany in 1990, the alliance’s territory expanded into the former GDR territory.
During the merger negotiations, a verbal agreement was reached that foreign (non-German) troops would not be deployed in the former GDR territory, and that NATO probably would not expand eastward.
The existence of such an agreement (and its subsequent violation by NATO) was announced by the Russian leadership, but was rejected by the alliance.
In 1994, it was decided to accept the former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact member states into NATO. Bill Clinton, then President of the United States, said in January 1994 that such a decision could become a “self-fulfilling prophecy” and lead to the “alienation” of Russia.