The leaders of Ukraine and Lithuania were left frustrated at the alliance’s summit in Vilnius on July 11-12, despite NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s assertion that “there has never been stronger language for membership in NATO”.
Although a communiqué issued after the two-day event proclaimed that “Ukraine’s
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda held a joint press conference on Monday, 10 July, the day before the start of the NATO meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, with 48 delegations of some 2,400 people, including 40 heads of state and 150 leading officials, due to
Polish President Andrzej Duda outlined five key areas for action for NATO on Tuesday, after international consultations in The Hague, The Netherlands, ahead of the upcoming summit of the alliance in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11-12 July.
To help prepare for next week’s summit, Duda met NATO Secretary General Jens
Leaders of EU member states and six countries in the Western Balkans – known as the WB6 – will renew vows of a “shared future” at Brdo Castle near Slovenia capital Ljubljana on 6 October.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen travelled to all of the WB6 capitals in