WASHINGTON – Ukraine and Georgia will join NATO, but this is not a matter of tomorrow, while the alliance should increase its support to Kyiv and Tbilisi, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sept. 5.
“I think it’s obvious that it won’t happen tomorrow, that they will join. So therefore, my message to NATO Allies, and also something I discussed actually yesterday with President Biden, is that we need to step up and do more for those aspirant countries,” he said during an online event hosted by Brookings Institution and Georgetown University.
He said as they’re not members NATO should provide more support, more training, more capacity building, help to implement reforms, fight corruption and build the security and defense institutions.
“Of course it’s only for NATO members and Georgia and Ukraine to decide when they’re ready to join. Not Russia. No one else has a (…) of saying that,” Stoltenberg said.
NATO Secretary General also said that in this post he is fighting against the concept of dividing the world into spheres of influence, and Russia, according to Stoltenberg, adheres to the opposite point of view on relations between states.
