NATO has not made any decision regarding Ukraine.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister stated that NATO leaders had not made any decisions regarding support for Ukraine or its membership.
According to RIA Novosti on June 25, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó stated that the final document of the NATO summit in The Hague (Netherlands) would not include any content regarding Ukraine's "irreversible path" into the alliance. The leaders attending the summit did not make any decision on supporting Kyiv.
"The final document of the summit no longer contains the phrase, as in last year's Washington Declaration, that Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO. I think this says it all; we welcome that, it is the truth," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó told Hungarian journalists at the end of the Ukraine-NATO Council meeting at the Foreign Minister level. The broadcast was made by M1 television channel.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister explained that, "Ukraine's membership in NATO would mean World War III, and we really don't want that to happen."
Mr. Szijjarto also stated that the NATO foreign ministers at the meeting "made no decisions regarding Ukraine, provided no further support, and did nothing else."
Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not participate in the official program of the NATO summit in The Hague because the US, Türkiye, Slovakia, and Hungary did not want to "sit at the same table" with him.
The NATO summit was held in The Hague over two days, June 24-25. Prior to that, AFP news agency quoted an unnamed diplomat as saying that NATO sought to shorten this year's summit and avoid mentioning Ukraine's potential membership, in order to prevent internal disagreements.
