NATO countries have committed in the first three months of the year 20,000 million euros of military and security support to Ukraine by 2025, the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, reported Wednesday.
“The NATO allies continue to support Ukraine. In the first three months of this year, the allies have already committed more than 20,000 million euros in security aid by 2025,” Routte said in a press conference prior to the meeting of foreign ministers of the organization held on Thursday and Friday in Brussels.
The former Dutch prime minister congratulated the president of the United States, Donald Trump, “to unlock the situation” with the diplomatic contacts initiated with the Russian and Ukrainian authorities and stressed his “full support for efforts” undertaken by that country to “just end this terrible war.”
Likewise, he supported the efforts of the United Kingdom, France and other countries to “contribute to guaranteeing lasting peace when the time comes”, in reference to the coalition of volunteers who head these nations to provide safety guarantees to kyiv when a fire is reached.
On April 10, precisely, the NATO headquarters will host a new meeting chaired by the United Kingdom and France of this coalition and 11 will do the same with a new session of the International Support Group to kyiv, which brings together a fifty countries and that this time the United Kingdom and Germany have called on this occasion.
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Routte made it clear that “the best way to end the war is that the Russians leave Ukraine and then it can end very soon, but that will not happen, I fear,” he said.
“That is why it is good that the Americans have now started this process and that was important, because someone had to get out of the dead point. And I always assumed that if President Trump was elected, he would try to do it; and he has done so and I think that is good,” he said.
Routte insisted that, “whatever happens, when an agreement has finally been reached and a high sustainable fire, it has to be clear to the Russians who cannot do this again, that this has to stop, and that is why it has to be lasting.”
And he apostilled: “This is exactly what the Americans claim: (…) make sure that all NATO remains safe.”
Routte insisted that “the threat we face by Russia persists” and stressed that Moscow “continues to collaborate closely with China, Iran and North Korea in forms that not only harm Ukraine, but also raise risks throughout the alliance and worldwide.”
“We see these and other actors working to destabilize our societies with sabotage, to destabilize infrastructure, cyber attacks, murder attempts and much more,” he concluded.
With EFE information
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