NATO Secretary-general Says Invitation For Ukraine Remains Valid

Mark Rutte also asked Trump to moderate Putin.

NATO will keep its promise to admit Ukraine to its membership even if it is not spelled out in a communiqué following the upcoming North Atlantic Alliance summit, the bloc's Secretary General Mark Rutte has said.

"We have said that this path to NATO is irreversible. And that assessment will not change after the summit," he said on Monday at the British international relations think tank Chatham House in London. Rutte specified that Ukraine-related items will probably be contained in the communiqué that will be adopted following the congress in The Hague on June 24-25.

The NATO secretary-general said that at the moment the alliance members have not formed a unified position on whether it is time to admit Ukraine into the alliance.

Rutte also called on U.S. President Donald Trump to influence Vladimir Putin to stop aggression against Ukraine. "He (Trump) should start discussing with President Putin how to end this terrible war," the NATO chief said.

He said White House chief Trump, unlike the Joseph Biden administration, is coordinating his efforts to build a dialog on ending the war with NATO allies.

"Russia has teamed up with China, North Korea and Iran. They are expanding their military forces and capabilities. Putin's war machine is accelerating, not slowing down. Russia is rebuilding its forces with Chinese technology and producing more weapons faster than we thought," Rutte also emphasized.

He said Moscow produces in three months as many weapons as NATO members produce in a year. In 2025, Russia's defense industry will produce 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles and 200 Iskander missiles, the NATO secretary general said.

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