NATO Secretary General, Press Conference at Defence Ministers Meeting, 16 JUN 2023

The North Atlantic Alliance is working to establish a NATO-Ukraine Council, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. “We are also working to establish a new NATO-Ukraine Council, where Ukraine will be equal to NATO Allies and consult and decide on security issues of mutual concern,” he pointed out at a press conference on Friday following a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels.     “Our ambition is to have the first meeting of the new Council in Vilnius, with [Ukrainian] President Zelensky,” Stoltenberg added. According to him, “Ukraine has already moved closer to NATO over the past decade.”…