At the moment, there can be no talk about Ukraine’s admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said at an economic forum in Krynica-Zdrój.
Andrzej Duda, responding to a question about the NATO summit held in Vilnius on 11-12 July, said that he had met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zielenski ahead of the summit and talked to him about the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO.
“From the very beginning, of course, we realised that this is a very complex issue. In particular, it is complicated simply because there is a war going on, and we were all well aware that the direct acceptance of Ukraine as a full member of NATO is out of the question at the moment,” the RAR news agency quoted Duda as saying.
The Polish president explained that due to the essence of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, i.e. the obligation of collective defence, Ukraine’s admission to NATO at the moment would mean NATO’s entry into a war with Russia.
“Therefore, it was obvious that NATO countries would not agree,” Duda said.
According to him, the summit “was about opening the door to NATO for Ukraine, that is, about opening this door”.
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