According to outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Ukraine can ‘go home satisfied’. He says it on the last day of the NATO summit in Vilnius. Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra also calls the summit “more than successful”. “NATO members have decided by broad consensus to help Ukraine in any way they can,” said Europe reporter Geert Jan Hahn from Vilnius.
Moreover, from now on Ukraine will be seen as an equal partner. For this purpose, a Ukraine-NATO council has been established, in which Ukraine can participate on an equal footing. “Also, Rutte had a long one-on-one talk with Zelenski today about all kinds of support and all kinds of terms,” Hahn explains. “And according to Rutte, Zelensky himself was also satisfied.”
‘According to Rutte, Zelenski was also satisfied’
However, the question quickly arises as to how sustainable Rutte’s words will be. All the more with the forthcoming parliamentary elections in November. “The Netherlands and Denmark have said that the G7 is committed to providing long-term support to Ukraine,” he explains. “That has been fleshed out in the bilateral agreements between those countries and Ukraine, and they want to participate in that.”
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Salient detail: The Netherlands and Denmark are the promoters of the F-16 coalition, which will train Ukrainian pilots to handle the F-16s yet to be delivered. “So that’s how they’re going to fill it, and then the deal can, in principle, go through the toilets.”
Source: BNR
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