NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte claims that security guarantees for Ukraine are considered to have NATO Member States. He said this after negotiations in the White House, which he graduated on Monday with European leaders, US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, TASR writes according to DPA.
- Mark Rutte proposes security guarantees for Ukraine similar to NATO.
- The United States supports discussions on security guarantees for Ukraine.
- Rutte stressed that this is not a question of NATO’s membership of Ukraine.
- Security guarantees are the basis of negotiations on Ukrainian territories.
The United States expressed their willingness to participate in the concept of security guarantees for Ukraine, which Rutte described as a breakthrough and described the meeting in the White House as successful. According to Rutte, guarantees of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty are discussed. NATO Secretary -General, after a meeting in the White House, said this for the American television station Fox News.
“We are not discussing NATO membership here. We are talking about security guarantees for Ukraine type 5,” stated. “What exactly this means will now be discussed more specifically,” he added.
NATO chief also stressed that Washington was not talking about the deployment of foreign ground forces to Ukraine or redrawing the Ukrainian border, What is, in his words, the question that the Ukrainian President and Russia must be discussed.
However, the participants of the negotiations, according to Rutte, agreed that In order to discuss the territories at all, Ukraine must be provided with safety guarantees. All NATO countries have to agree on their form, which he said will be discussed in the coming days.
Greens called West to provide Kiev with safety guarantees of this type, with Even before meetings in the White House described them as necessary to end the war. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty concerns the so -called. of collective defense, while Member States are militarily helping to the contested state, recalls DPA.
