Category: Vilnius Summit

Zelenskyy Calls NATO’s Decision Not to Provide Timeline for Membership ‘Unprecedented and Absurd’

July 11, 2023
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VILNIUS, Lithuania—NATO members on Tuesday issued a statement expressing their support for Ukraine’s membership but failing to provide a timeline for when this may occur. “Ukraine’s future is in NATO,” the Vilnius Summit Communique (pdf) read. The high-stakes summit in Vilnius, set for July 11–12, brings together leaders from the alliance’s 31 member countries to…

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NATO Says Ukraine May Join Alliance When ‘Conditions Are Met’

July 11, 2023
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VILNIUS, Lithuania—NATO members on Tuesday issued a statement expressing their support for Ukraine’s membership but failing to provide a timeline for when this may occur. “Ukraine’s future is in NATO,” the Vilnius Summit Communique (pdf) read. The high-stakes summit in Vilnius, set for July 11–12, brings together leaders from the alliance’s 31 member countries to…

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Sweden Membership Is NATO Summit’s ‘Million Dollar Question’—but Ukraine Will Be Its Focus

July 6, 2023
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Defense ministers and other officials from all 31 nations in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gather between July 11–12 in Vilnius, Lithuania, for a meeting that could define the 75-year-old alliance’s next century. On tap is NATO’s first updated battle plan since the fall of the Soviet Union, a discussion about membership funding levels,…

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