![]() ![]() ![]() In February, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on NATO countries to provide long-term security guarantees for Ukraine. “The only way to ensure that that stops is partly to ensure that Ukraine has the military strength to deter and defend against further aggression from Russia but also to find some kind of framework to prevent President Putin from continuing to chip away at European security,” Stoltenberg said. Beyond the annexation of Crimea, he also noted Russia’s conflict with Georgia in 2008, saying: “This has to stop.” “We don’t know how this war will end, but what we do know is that when it ends it is extremely important that we are able to prevent history from repeating itself,” Stoltenberg said. In the past year, the U.S., U.K., France and Germany committed to provide security guarantees to Finland and Sweden when they applied to join NATO, should it be necessary to dissuade President Vladimir Putin from trying to destabilize the two Nordic neighbors.įinland has since joined and has Article 5 protection, but Sweden’s accession is pending. NATO allies benefit from a collective security guarantee - so called Article 5 of the organization’s founding Washington Treaty - which ensures that an attack on any one of their number would be considered an attack on them all. ![]()
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