NATO makes no decision on Ukraine
NATO leaders have not made any decisions regarding Ukraine's support and membership, Hungary's foreign minister said.
According to RIA Novosti on June 25, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said that the final document of the NATO Summit in The Hague (Netherlands) will not include the content of Ukraine's "irreversible path" to the alliance. The leaders attending the conference did not make any decision on supporting Kiev.
"The final document of the summit no longer contains the phrase from last year's Washington Declaration that Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO. I think this says it all, we welcome it, it's true," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó told Hungarian journalists at the end of the Ukraine-NATO Council meeting at the Foreign Ministers' level. The broadcast was carried by the M1 TV 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 said that NATO foreign ministers at the meeting "did not make any decisions regarding Ukraine, no additional support and 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 is being held in The Hague on June 24-25. Earlier, AFP news agency quoted an unnamed diplomat as saying that NATO was trying to shorten this year's summit and avoid mentioning Ukraine's potential membership so as not to create internal disagreements.
