Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has said it would be up to Ukraine to decide when it wanted to negotiate peace with Russia, as he sought to downplay comments by a key aide about a land-for-Nato-membership agreement.
The head of the military alliance was speaking at the Arendal democracy festival where a couple of days earlier his chief of staff had caused controversy by suggesting that Ukraine could “give up territory” for peace and Nato membership.
Stoltenberg argued that the path to a settlement was “to support Ukraine militarily. If you want a lasting, just peace, then military support for Ukraine is the way to get there. There is no doubt about that,” he said in an interview at the event.
北约秘书长延斯·斯托尔滕贝格表示，何时与俄罗斯进行和平谈判将由乌克兰决定，他试图淡化一名重要助手关于土地换北约成员协议的说法。
军事联盟领导人在阿伦达尔民主节上发表讲话，几天前，他的办公室主任暗示乌克兰可以“放弃领土”以换取和平和加入北约，从而引起争议。
斯托尔滕贝格认为，解决问题的途径是“在军事上支持乌克兰”。 他在活动中接受采访时说，如果你想要持久、公正的和平，那么对乌克兰的军事支持毫无疑问就是实现这一目标的途径。 ”
