NATO is holding a Foreign Ministerial in Washington,DC from 3-4 April 2019.Ahead of the critical meeting, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been sharing the Alliance's perspective:
When it comes to Ukraine and NATO membership, we recognise the ambitions, the aspiration of Ukraine to become a NATO member.We work with Ukraine to help Ukraine move forward towards its transatlantic integration.And that's why we have all the different frameworks,programs to provide help and support, to help Ukraine focus on the most important thing, and that is reform: to modernise to meet the NATO standards,we help Ukraine;we modernise their defence and security institutions; we have trust funds; we have training; we have different kinds of activities where we are helping Ukraine.
We strongly believe that this has to be the main focus: reform and continue to modernise and to strengthen the defence and security institutions, including fighting corruption.So this will be our focus.*
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Congress he hopes to see NATO take more action against Russian aggression in Ukraine:
I am hopeful... I will be able to announce another series of actions that we will jointly take together.*
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