{"id":131659,"date":"2024-11-30T05:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131659"},"modified":"2024-11-30T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:37:51","slug":"ukraine-asks-nato-for-membership-invite-next-week-letter-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131659","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine asks NATO for membership invite next week, letter shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">By John Irish and Tom Balmforth<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">(Reuters) -Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged his NATO counterparts to issue an invitation to Kyiv at a meeting in Brussels next week to join the Western military alliance, according to the text of a letter seen by Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The letter reflects Ukraine&#8217;s renewed push to secure an invitation to join NATO, which is part of a &#8220;victory plan&#8221; outlined last month by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to end the war triggered by Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-body md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h4 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h4>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Zelenskiy told UK-based Sky News that offering Ukraine NATO membership while allowing Russia to keep for the moment territory it had captured could be a solution to end the &#8220;hot stage&#8221; of the 33-month-old war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Ukraine says it accepts that it cannot join the alliance until the war is over but extending an invitation now would show Russian President Vladimir Putin that he could not achieve one of his main goals &#8211; preventing Kyiv from becoming a NATO member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">&#8220;The invitation should not be seen as an escalation,&#8221; Sybiha wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">&#8220;On the contrary, with a clear understanding that Ukraine&#8217;s membership in NATO is inevitable, Russia will lose one of its main arguments for continuing this unjustified war,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">&#8220;I urge you to endorse the decision to invite Ukraine to join the Alliance as one of the outcomes of the NATO Foreign Ministerial Meeting on 3-4 December 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Zelenskiy told Sky News an invitation had to be officially extended to the entire country as Ukraine had no legal right to recognise any of its territory as Russian. NATO membership could then initially apply to only the part of Ukraine that Kyiv controls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">&#8220;No one has offered us to be in NATO for one part or another part of Ukraine. The fact is, it is a solution to stop the hot stage of the war because we can just give NATO membership to the part of Ukraine that is under our control,&#8221; Zelenskiy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">&#8220;But the invitation must be given to Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders &#8230; That&#8217;s what we need to do fast and then Ukraine can get back the other part of its territory diplomatically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">NO NATO CONSENSUS<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">NATO diplomats say there is no consensus among alliance members to invite Ukraine at this stage. Any such decision would require the consent of all NATO&#8217;s 32 member countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">NATO has declared that Ukraine will join the alliance and that it is on an &#8220;irreversible&#8221; path to membership. But it has not issued a formal invitation or set out a timeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Olga Stefanishyna, Ukraine&#8217;s deputy prime minister in charge of NATO affairs, said Kyiv understood that the consensus for an invitation to join NATO &#8220;is not yet there&#8221; but the letter was meant to send a strong political signal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">&#8220;We have sent a message to the allies that invitation is not off of the table, regardless of different manipulations and speculations around that,&#8221; she told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">In his letter, Sybiha argued an invitation would be the right response &#8220;to Russia&#8217;s constant escalation of the war it has unleashed, the latest demonstration of which is the involvement of tens of thousands of North Korean troops and the use of Ukraine as a testing ground for new weapons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">In recent days, however, diplomats have said they do not see any changes of stance among NATO countries, particularly as they await the Ukraine policy of the United States &#8211; the alliance&#8217;s dominant power &#8211; under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">(Reporting by John Irish and Tom Balmforth; writing by Andrew Gray; Editing by Gareth Jones, Tomasz Janowski, Ron Popeski and Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ukraine-asks-nato-membership-invite-161314481.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Irish and Tom Balmforth (Reuters) -Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged his NATO counterparts to issue an invitation to Kyiv at a meeting in Brussels next week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131659\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}