BRUSSELS Dec. 3 () –
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Andri Sibiga, demanded this Tuesday that NATO adopt “strong and historic decisions” to strengthen Ukraine against Russia, as kyiv understands that it is “the moment of truth to provide geopolitical certainty.”
“We need strong decisions to strengthen ourselves and our capabilities,” said the Ukrainian Foreign Minister in statements upon his arrival at the meeting with his NATO counterparts, with which he will hold a dinner in which the High Representative of Ukraine also participates. the EU for Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas.
Without making explicit the demand for Ukraine to be invited to NATO, Sibiga has insisted that kyiv needs “strong and historic decisions, instead of calls to Putin and visits to Moscow”, in reference to the contact of the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, or the trip of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, last summer to meet with the Russian president in the Kremlin.
Faced with the wave of air attacks suffered by Ukraine, Sibiga has specified that kyiv has located 19 key spaces, such as critical infrastructure, and expects as many anti-aircraft defense systems to protect them. “We have sent a list of our needs and I expect a tangible decision to urgently supply these defense systems,” he noted.
These statements come in the midst of a debate on whether Ukraine could enter the military organization partially, with a guarantee of security only in the part controlled by kyiv, as the Ukrainian president himself, Volodymyr Zelensky, has suggested, a model that the case of Germany would follow. when the western part joined NATO in 1955 and the rest of the country after reunification in 1990.
Although kyiv sees it as one of the premises to begin negotiating with Russia, all the sources consulted admit that entry into the alliance is far from the necessary unanimity and many allies consider that it is not the right time, starting with Washington.
This same Tuesday, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reiterated in a statement its demand to achieve a formal invitation for the country to join NATO as soon as possible. “We will not accept alternatives or substitutions to the full integration of Ukraine into NATO,” he stated in a statement released on the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum.
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