{"id":67885,"date":"2024-07-10T22:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T22:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/07\/10\/nato-calls-ukraines-path-to-membership-irreversible-in-new-pledge\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:09:19","slug":"nato-calls-ukraines-path-to-membership-irreversible-in-new-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2024\/07\/10\/nato-calls-ukraines-path-to-membership-irreversible-in-new-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO calls Ukraine\u2019s path to membership \u2018irreversible\u2019 in new pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The members of NATO issued their plan for the next year during the 75th anniversary summit in Washington, calling Ukraine\u2019s path to membership in the alliance \u201cirreversible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/ru\/natohq\/official_texts_227678.htm?selectedLocale=en\">The communique<\/a> is a rhetorical flourish to the document issued last year in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the strongest commitment to date on having the embattled country join the security pact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe welcome the concrete progress Ukraine has made since the Vilnius Summit on its required democratic, economic, and security reforms,\u201d the Washington Declaration reads. \u201cAs Ukraine continues this vital work, we will continue to support it on its irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters the alliance will ensure \u201cthat when the time is right, Ukraine will join without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is not a question of if but when,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But to the disappointment of Ukraine\u2019s biggest supporters, there is no invitation for the nation to join, nor is there a more specific plan to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/07\/08\/biden-to-host-nato-summit-geared-at-managing-expectations\/\">Unlike during last year\u2019s summit, <\/a>Ukraine\u2019s delegation understood that such an offer almost certainly wouldn\u2019t arrive. Officials in Kyiv instead turned to the material support they could gather from the summit, like air defense, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2024\/07\/10\/f-16s-to-be-flying-in-the-skies-of-ukraine-this-summer-us-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">F-16 fighter jets<\/a> and an expanded role for NATO to aid Ukraine\u2019s military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Negotiators working on the communique had jostled over whether it would call Ukraine\u2019s path \u201cirreversible\u201d or a \u201cbridge.\u201d In the end, both made it into the document \u2014 a win for those pushing to harden last year\u2019s language. But as many Ukrainian officials and analysts told Defense News this week, it\u2019s still only language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeside the political decisions, which we understand can only go so far now, we need practical decisions\u201d on equipment, Igor Zhovkva, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pledge includes a large package of such support for Ukraine, including a long-term support for its self-defense. Next year, the allies have pledged to send Ukraine at least $43 billion in funding, some of which will go toward security. Part of the motivation for this commitment is the U.S. presidential election in November, when former President Donald Trump \u2014 a skeptic of NATO and the support for Ukraine \u2014 could return to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also confirms a NATO command in Wiesbaden, Germany, made up of 700 personnel. As Ukraine wanted, this new group will supplement \u2014 rather than entirely replace \u2014 the work of another forum convened every month by the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, there is still some disagreement within the alliance over which group will lead assistance to Ukraine in the longer run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June, speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels, a senior U.S. defense official said the new command wouldn\u2019t replace the American-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But speaking the week before the summit at an embassy in Washington, a European official said something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cProgressively NATO will take that responsibility,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking with reporters on Monday, a senior NATO official attributed the disconnect in part to nascency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a new mechanism that has been set up,\u201d the official said of the Wiesbaden command. \u201cThere will be an incremental stepping up of NATO\u2019s role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The communique also takes the harshest line on China to date, calling it \u201ca decisive enabler of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine\u201d through support for the Russian defense industry, part of a bigger partnership between the two autocracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO called on China to cease such support, and also named two other partners offering military assistance to Russia: North Korea and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe strongly condemn [North Korea\u2019s] exports of artillery shells and ballistic missiles, which are in violation of numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions, and note with great concern the deepening ties between [North Korea] and Russia,\u201d the document reads. \u201cAny transfer of ballistic missiles and related technology by Iran to Russia would represent a substantial escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the core struggles for NATO since the war has been surging its member states\u2019 defense industries to compete in the kind of slogging warfare occurring in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a companion to the communique, the alliance also released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/news_227685.htm\">defense-industrial pledge<\/a>, intended to help marshal their collective manufacturing sectors. 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