Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has expressed reservations about Ukraine’s NATO membership request. “We continue to support Ukraine’s right to self-defense, including with heavy weapons, but we are doing everything we can to ensure that other countries and NATO are not drawn into this war,” she replied on Friday evening on ARD “Focal Point”. Asked her position on Ukraine’s NATO application.
Kyiv had previously announced that it wanted to apply to join NATO. In general, the prerequisite for accession is that the candidate must not be involved in international conflicts and border disputes.
The Minister from the Greens was convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin further isolated internationally with the completed incorporation of further Ukrainian territories. It is about “land grabbing with the most brutal violence, with methods that you can no longer imagine that people can do to other people,” she said.
“And that’s why it’s absolutely clear that this brutal breach of the UN Charter can’t actually be accepted by any country in the world.” Even the countries that said at the beginning of the war that it was a European matter have now made it clear : “They are not on the side of Russia either.” to support Ukraine in its defensive struggle and to make Putin so clear: “The world stands united against you.”
