Poland and Italy at NATO summit to advocate security guarantees for Ukraine
Poland and Italy will push for giving Ukraine security guarantees at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said after meeting his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni in Warsaw on Wednesday.
“The NATO summit will soon take place in Vilnius. There, Poland and Italy will also have very similar, if not identical, positions regarding giving Ukraine the strongest possible security guarantees,” Morawiecki said.
“We know for sure that passivity towards Ukraine would be something very dangerous,” he added.
“We will continue to be on Ukraine’s side, supporting it for as long as it is necessary by 360 degrees. This concerns the next NATO meeting in Vilnius, on which we agree with Poland on the need to present real security guarantees to Ukraine,” she said in Warsaw in a meeting with Polish Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki. Their speech was broadcast by the YouTube channel of the government’s Palazzo Kigi.
The Italian prime minister stressed that Rome and Warsaw have the same positions on the Ukrainian issue.
According to Meloni, the conflict in Ukraine has “domino consequences” for Europe, to which the continent must be able to respond effectively. Referring to the EU’s “strategic autonomy”, Meloni stressed that after the coronavirus pandemic and escalation in Ukraine, it became clear that Europe “does not control most of its supply (resource) chains”.
Earlier, Volodymyr Zelenski said that if Ukraine did not receive an invitation to join NATO at the summit in Vilnius in July, it would demotivate the Ukrainian troops. He said that he had repeatedly spoken to European leaders, US President Joe Biden, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and asked them “not to knock the ground out from under Ukraine’s feet”. Stoltenberg said on 19 June that at the Vilnius summit and in the run-up to it, the allies were not discussing a formal invitation to Ukraine, but holding consultations on what decisions would bring Kiev closer to joining the alliance.
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