NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte has acknowledged that the Alliance’s determination concerning Ukraine’s future membership stays unchanged, no matter any political rhetoric.

Supply: Rutte to journalists following a gathering of NATO overseas ministers in Brussels, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Rutte requested to not conflate Ukraine’s membership aspirations with peace negotiations. He additionally emphasised that the choice taken on the NATO Summit in Washington stays legitimate.

Quote: "We determined in Washington that the trail of Ukraine into NATO is irreversible … nevertheless it was by no means promised to Ukraine that NATO membership could be a part of a peace deal."

Background:

• On the Brussels assembly, NATO reiterated the irreversibility of Ukraine’s membership within the Alliance and that the choices of the Washington Summit stay in drive.
• Ukrainian International Minister Andrii Sybiha, talking in Brussels, acknowledged that Ukraine wouldn’t settle for Russia’s demand that the nation keep out of NATO.

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