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Spain becomes 21st country that supported Ukraine’s NATO membership – Zelenskyy
European Pravda
Saturday, 1 July 2023, 17:03
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/1/7409427/

Ukraine and Spain signed a joint declaration, which became the 21st document on support for Ukraine’s membership in NATO.

SOURCE: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s President, during a joint press conference with Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain.

QUOTE: “Our statement today is already the 21st such document with the members of the Alliance, and this is the majority. We count on Spain’s support for Ukraine at the Alliance summit in Vilnius, and Ukraine is convinced that today there are all the reasons to extend an invitation to NATO membership to Ukraine,” Zelenskyy emphasised.

The joint declaration of the leaders of Spain and Ukraine states that Spain supports the strengthening of NATO’s partnership with Ukraine, in particular through the creation of a Ukraine-NATO Council as a platform for further strengthening and expansion of current cooperation to facilitate the implementation of Ukraine’s path to the Euro-Atlantic family in accordance with the Bucharest Declaration.

“Spain confirms its support for NATO’s open door policy in accordance with NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept and the NATO Madrid Summit Declaration,” the document says.

As noted, Ukraine and Spain are waiting for these issues to be resolved at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July 2023.

BACKGROUND:

On 10 June, Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of Ukraine’s President Office, stated that after the signing of the declaration on Canada’s support for Ukraine’s accession to NATO, the number of states that officially supported Ukraine’s accession to NATO has reached 20.

Ukraine has formulated two specific expectations from the upcoming summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in Vilnius – regarding membership and security guarantees – and will insist on their approval.