NATO's final decision will not include invitation for Ukraine – media

The final document of the NATO Summit in Vilnius will not contain an invitation to Ukraine for membership negotiations but will provide for the possibility of such an invitation when the Allies agree to it and when conditions allow.

Source: Interfax Ukraine citing several informed sources

Details: According to the agency, the wording regarding Ukraine's membership in NATO in the final document will look like this: "We will send an invitation when the allies agree, and the conditions are met."

Interfax Ukraine sources also confirmed that the Allies agreed to cancel the Membership Action Plan from Ukraine's accession conditions. This wording can be stated as follows: "Ukraine's path to full Euro-Atlantic integration has gone beyond the necessity of the Membership Action Plan."

A high-ranking official of one of the largest states of the Alliance, in a conversation with European Pravda, did not specify the exact wording, but confirmed the adoption of the expected decision regarding the "invitation with conditions", and noted that Kyiv should "understand the need to carry out structural reforms, which it undertook to do earlier".

Quote: "These are not some new conditions; they apply to any state that joins the Alliance."

At the same time, Interfax Ukraine sources do not rule out that the text may still undergo changes.

Background: 

• The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who previously expressed dissatisfaction with the conditions for membership, arrived in Vilnius on Tuesday for negotiations.
• Before that, he harshly criticised discussions about Ukraine’s potential path to membership in NATO, writing: "Uncertainty is weakness"

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