{"id":11473,"date":"2021-04-09T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11473"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:16:15","slug":"lithuania-asks-nato-to-provide-ukraine-with-an-action-plan-for-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11473","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Asks NATO to Provide Ukraine with an Action Plan for Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithuania\">Lithuania<\/a> calls on NATO allies to provide Ukraine with an action plan for membership, after which the country can become a member of the alliance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 09, 2021 \u2013 Diplomatic Affairs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This came in a media statement made by the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should write to our colleagues shortly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/health\/if-you-sleep-with-tws-headphones-you-have-to-reconsider-it\/\">reconsider<\/a> the possibility of providing an action plan for Ukraine. I am convinced that NATO can repeat its proposal for an action plan, and we are just starting to agree on this issue with our colleagues from the Baltic countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lithuanian minister, this would be a strong signal to Russia that Ukraine is choosing a direction across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also commented on the increase in the Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/international-news\/a-venezuelan-military-unit-on-the-border-with-colombia\/\">military<\/a> presence on the border with Ukraine and the increase in ceasefire violations, saying that it is very important to send a clear collective signal to Russia that such acts of aggression will have consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine aspires to become an equal member of NATO, and affirmed that he wants to raise the issue of NATO membership to US President Joseph Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine attained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukrainian-cultur\/the-police-and-the-national-guard-switch-to-an-enhanced-regime-in-kiev\/\">enhanced<\/a> partner status in NATO, allowing for closer military-industrial cooperation, employment of Ukrainians in the alliance, and additional protection from it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The United States&#8217; permanent representative to NATO, Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison, said that Ukraine&#8217;s access to enhanced partner status was not a sign of the country&#8217;s approach to the Alliance&#8217;s action plan, which it would be able to obtain in time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The United States supports Ukraine&#8217;s desire to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukrainian-cultur\/the-highest-award-from-the-state-department-bears-the-name-of-anatoliy-zlenko\/\">join<\/a> NATO, but this is a matter of NATO leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, NATO ambassadors held an urgent meeting due to the escalation of the situation in Donbas and the accumulation of Russian forces near the Ukraine border.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defense has published a list of NATO military exercises in which Ukraine will participate in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukraine-news\/zelensky-agreed-on-the-candidacy-of-the-new-minister-of-defense\/\">Zelensky Agreed on the Candidacy of the New Minister of Defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania calls on NATO allies to provide Ukraine with an action plan for membership, after which the country can become a member of the alliance. Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 09, 2021 \u2013 Diplomatic Affairs \u00a0 This came in a media statement made by the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. &nbsp; \u201cWe should write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1375,2998,996,1024],"class_list":["post-11473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diplomatic-affairs","tag-lithuania","tag-nato","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrgate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}