30 Nations Drafting Security Guarantees for Ukraine, Rutte Says
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that a coalition of 30 nations has been working for several months on a framework of security guarantees for Ukraine.
The Gaze reports this, referring to Fox News.
“Over the last couple of months, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, and Emmanuel Macron, the French President, a group of now 30 countries, including Japan and Australia, are working on this concept of security guarantees,” Rutte stated.
He stressed that Washington’s involvement in the project will be defined in the near future.
“We need to discuss more details about these security guarantees,” he said, calling the United States’ readiness to take part a “real breakthrough.”
According to Rutte, the proposals under discussion resemble NATO’s Article 5 collective defense clause, though the specifics are still being negotiated.
His remarks followed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.
Today, the leaders of the “сoalition of the willing” are set to hold a virtual meeting to review the outcomes of talks in Washington on Ukraine and discuss next steps.
The session, chaired by UK PM Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, will focus on security guarantees for Kyiv, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish PM Donald Tusk, and European Council President António Costa among the participants.
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