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At the NATO enlargement summit in November 2002, the NATO–Ukraine commission adopted a NATO-Ukraine Action Plan. [37] President Kuchma's declaration that Ukraine wanted to join NATO (also in 2002) and the sending of Ukrainian troops to Iraq in 2003 [26] could not mend relations between Kuchma and NATO. [26]
If Ukraine was a NATO member, on the other hand, the treaty’s collective defense clause, known as Article 5, would require other members to fight on Ukraine’s behalf.
NATO countries will need to discuss conditions for Ukraine to get a membership invitation and to join the alliance in response to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's "victory plan", Dutch Defence ...
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would need the U.S. to help it build up an army as big as that of Russia to serve as a "Plan B" if his country is not admitted into the North Atlantic ...
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Ukraine expressed the desire to be formally invited to NATO at the Vilnius summit. [5] On 8 July 2023, US President Joe Biden said that Ukraine is not ready to join NATO at that time. [6] By the time of the summit there were 24 member states that had formally declared their support for Ukraine's NATO membership.
The Ukraine Compact was built on an earlier a set of recommendations by former NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the Kyiv Security Compact. [7]The Kyiv Security Compact called for a new European security architecture that would guarantee Ukraine's security until the country would be able to join NATO.
Zelenskyy said Article 5 might not apply to all of Ukraine's territory if it joins NATO, to not drag other member states into war. Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images