Stoltenberg Announces Participation of Vladimir Zelensky at NATO Summit

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will participate in the alliance's summit to be held on July 11-12 in Vilnius. This information was reported by the Ukrainian publication ‘Strana.ua’.

It is noted that Zelensky's and Stoltenberg's joint speech is already included in the program of the event on July 12.

Earlier, the German publication Bild, citing several sources, reported that at the upcoming NATO summit, Zelensky plans to publicly address the leaders of all member countries with a request for his country to be accepted into the organization. However, the US and Germany were opposed to this.

NATO adopted a political declaration at the Bucharest summit in April 2008 stating that