Go to the media bankNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference after the Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels. File photoMOSCOW, 2 Oct. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with NBC was unable to give an unequivocal answer to the question of the accelerated accession of Ukraine to the alliance. A similar question was asked by an NBC TV presenter. «NATO remains committed to an open door policy. Each country, including, of course, Ukraine, has the right to choose its own path, including when seeking security guarantees. Any decision on membership must be made by consensus, that is, by all 30 members of the alliance,» he said.
Nine European countries supported Ukraine's entry into NATOOn September 30, President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics , Kherson and Zaporozhye regions signed agreements on the inclusion of these regions into Russia. Against this background, Zelensky said that Kyiv would immediately apply for an accelerated entry into NATO. Then Stoltenberg recalled that in order to accept a new member into the military bloc, the consent of all 30 participating countries is needed, although he promised that NATO would concentrate its efforts on providing assistance to Kyiv.
