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| Lithuanian Foreign Minister Says No Significant Breakthrough at NATO Summit |
| 2024-07-14 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited But in the Donbass, on the other hand... [Regnum] Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis did not see a global strategic breakthrough in the results of the NATO summit. He noted that political expectations from the summit were low from the very beginning. “What hasn’t happened is any major strategic breakthrough,” the politician wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter). He stressed that no one had high expectations from the summit, since the final provisions of the declaration were known several months before the event. The diplomat called the fact that at the summit the participants once again did not give Ukraine permission to strike deep into Russia with Western weapons the biggest missed opportunity. The NATO summit took place in Washington from July 9 to 11. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the joint declaration of the participants of the NATO summit in Washington, which is taking place on July 9-11, contains a thesis on the "irreversibility" of Ukraine's entry into the North Atlantic Alliance. However, the document notes that at the moment the alliance is not ready to send Ukraine a direct invitation, including due to the lack of full agreement among NATO member countries. At the same time, after the summit, on July 12, US President Joe Biden said that permission to strike targets along the border with Russia was short-term . According to the American leader, there was “no need” for the US to further lift restrictions on Kiev’s use of American weapons to strike Russia. On June 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called Ukraine's official refusal to join NATO one of the mandatory conditions, upon fulfillment of which it will be possible to hold negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the conflict. On July 12, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that NATO long-range missiles are already striking Russian territory, and a possible increase in the range of such strikes will be a new stage in the escalation of the conflict. |
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