{"id":3743,"date":"2023-09-23T01:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2023-09-23T01:08:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:08:24","slug":"ukraine-cannot-become-nato-member-until-conflict-ends-stoltenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/ukraine-cannot-become-nato-member-until-conflict-ends-stoltenberg\/3743\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine cannot become NATO member until conflict ends: Stoltenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said Ukraine cannot become a bloc member until the end of the conflict. He made the remark during a public lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Ukrinform reported on Friday. Stoltenberg said, \u201cThe fact that the war is in an active stage does not allow us to invite them (Ukrainians) tomorrow or today.\u201d At the same time, Stoltenberg suggested that Ukraine may become a NATO member after the cessation of the hostilities in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are interrelated issues \u2014 NATO membership, ending the war and ensuring lasting peace after the war,\u201d he said. Providing Ukraine with Western-style weapons and training of Ukrainian servicemen is bringing Ukraine closer to NATO membership, he added. NATO recognised Ukraine as its Enhanced Opportunities Partner in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said Ukraine cannot become a bloc member until the end of the conflict. He\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[977,976,978,265],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-membership","tag-nato","tag-nato-secretary-general-jens-stoltenberg","tag-russia-ukraine-war"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}