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Accession to the US-led bloc is a ’sensitive process? that may require intermediate steps, Dutch caretaker PM Mark Rutte has said
The Netherlands‘ caretaker prime minister, Mark Rutte, has said that admitting Ukraine to NATO is not feasible while the conflict with Russia is ongoing. Rutte has been described in the media as a frontrunner to become the next secretary-general of the US-led bloc.
The politician made the comments at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday in response to a question about whether EU prime ministers would „personally support“ Ukraine’s membership bid at the next NATO summit in Washington in July.
„The bad news is – as long as the war is raging, Ukraine cannot become a member of NATO,“ Rutte has said.
