Ukraine seeking ‘concrete response’ on NATO membership on its 75th anniversary

WASHINGTON: NATO leaders will meet in Washington for a three-day summit starting on July 9 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the alliance.

Ukraine wants to see a “strong” decision taken at the meeting as Kyiv tries to advance its strategic goal of joining the military alliance, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s foreign policy adviser told Reuters.

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Ihor Zhovkva, who spoke in an interview before travelling to Luxembourg for a European Union meeting that will formally launch accession talks for Ukraine, said that Kyiv wanted the NATO summit to end with concrete results.

Zelenskiy, who lobbied unsuccessfully for a political invitation to join the alliance at its summit in Vilnius last summer, has said that this year’s summit should resolve the matter of inviting Kyiv to join.

While NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and Washington have both said they do not expect the alliance’s 32 members at the July 9-11 summit to invite wartime Kyiv to join, Stoltenberg has said he hopes to show Ukraine is moving closer to membership.

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Allies have been discussing a possible text in the summit statement that could send that signal, such as declaring that Ukraine’s path to NATO is “irreversible”.