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when NATO leaders have ended two days of

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talks in Brussels and made a start on

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drafting the West's first integrated

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defense strategy since the Cold War

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initial steps prompted by the war in

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Ukraine include agreement on protecting

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vital undersea cables and pipelines

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several NATO members have also pledged

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more military assistance for Ukraine but

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differences remain over increasing

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overall defense spending and expanding

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the alliance

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more troops on high alert better

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Logistics new capabilities for the first

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time since the Cold War NATO is drawing

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up new defense plans to address the

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threat posed by Russia but to carry them

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out allies have to increase their

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defense spending that is Ian

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stoltenberg's message in Brussels he

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urged NATO countries to go beyond the

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target of two percent of GDP agreed 10

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years ago I think more and more allies

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also agreed to the fact that two percent

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uh should not be some kind of ceiling

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but but the minimum because they they

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realize that there is an urgent need to

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increase defense spending the new

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spending goal is still being discussed

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as well as the details of the defense

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plans and as yet there is no

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breakthrough on Sweden the Swedish

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defense minister joined the meeting in

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Brussels but his country's bid to join

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NATO is still being blocked by Hungary

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and especially turkey despite efforts by

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the U.S and others to pressure Ankara to

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drop its objections

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we welcome all efforts that can assure

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that we can become a full-fledged member

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of the alliance by The Village Summit

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and I think it's really the sense of

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urgency of Sweden getting a full-fledged

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membership is much higher also due to

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the work that's being undertaken inside

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NATO with strengthening NATO's Regional

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plans

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during their meeting NATO defense

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ministers approved a new body to upgrade

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ties with Kiev the Ukraine NATO Council

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several allies also pledged to further

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increase their military assistance among

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them Germany which had already announced

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a 2.7 billion Euro 8 package in addition

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to that we have now decided that we will

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immediately deliver another 64 guided

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missiles for the Patriot systems a very

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important sign to support the successful

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efforts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to

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ensure air defense especially now in

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this special phase

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next big issue on the alliances calendar

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is the much anticipated Summit of NATO

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leaders in Lithuania in mid-july

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NATO's Secretary General Yen stoltenberg

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says members have agreed to move Ukraine

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closer to the military Alliance

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He has expressed confidence that there

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will be a consensus on this issue at

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next month's NATO Summit in Vilnius

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stolenberg said the NATO Ukraine Council

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will be set up where Keith will be

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represented as an equal partner he made

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the comments on the final day of a NATO

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defense Minister's meeting in Brussels

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we are also working to establish a new

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NATO Ukraine Council where Ukraine will

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be equal to NATO allies a consult and

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decide on security issues of mutual

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concern

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our ambition is to have the first

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meeting of the new Council in business

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with president zelensky

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we all agree that Ukraine has already

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moved closer to Nato over the past

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decade

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let's get more insight from DW

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correspondent Terry Schultz in Brussels

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Terry so many weighty outcomes on the

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table now what stood out to you as the

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most significant outcome of the meeting

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well obviously for Ukraine what you just

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heard there from Secretary General

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soldenberg is very important they had

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hoped to be offered membership that's

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very unlikely but there will be other

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moves taken to make Ukraine feel more

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secure in a future within this Alliance

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but uh in addition to that there are

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some practical things that happened here

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that are also very important for Kiev

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and one of those is that allies agreed

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to step up training of Pilots for f-16s

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now no one is certain to give fighter

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aircraft to Ukraine at this point

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they're talking more about possibly

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after the war you never know that that's

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changed many times but many countries

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came forward and said we'd like to train

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these Pilots so they'll be ready if and

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when that happens it's what they call a

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bird Coalition formulating around

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getting ukrainians trained out of and

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eventually getting them these aircrafts

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so that was another big outcome of the

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summit and and finally just for NATO

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Watchers it appears to be confirmed now

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that NATO Secretary General Yen

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stoltenberg will be staying on in his

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position another year the alliance has

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not coalesced around another candidate

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and while the Secretary General himself

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says he is not seeking an extension it

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appears he'll be asked to take one

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you put the question personally to him

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Terry uh how did discussions about

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Sweden's NATO membership unfold

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original plans how the alliance is going

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to

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re sort of calculate what it does if a

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certain part of the alliance comes under

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attack and of course Sweden sits right

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in the middle of of other NATO allies

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Finland and Norway up there with Denmark

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and the Baltic so there's a bit of a

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hole there if Sweden doesn't get NATO

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membership and of course these are

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questions we've been asking over and

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over and over for a year now and it

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doesn't appear that they got any sort of

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sign from turkey that president erdogan

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is willing to waive turkey to wave

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Sweden through to ask his Parliament to

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approve Sweden and we also heard from

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the Swedish defense minister that he

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wasn't given any such assurances but

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something else did happen during this

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meeting and that is that the Turkish

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Parliament extended its sitting period

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by another month it would have been out

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of session now until October of course

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passing the Vilnius Summit in July now

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it will actually stay in session another

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month and could approve Swedish

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membership if president erdogan sends it

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there to lawmakers

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Terry will know that more defense means

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more spending where are the discussions

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now on new spending commitments

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well this discussion two percent that

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allies need to spend two percent of

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their GDP on their militaries in order

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to be ready for whatever NATO may be

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asked to do that pledge uh is is over

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next year that was in in 2024 so they've

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got to come up with some other language

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to to try to commit governments to spend

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enough on their militaries to be to be

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prepared for for possible crises so

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there's been a lot of discussion about

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whether that can stay at two percent

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there are a lot of countries uh that

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would like it to be higher the Baltic

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states are already spending you know

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three percent and would like there to be

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a commitment from other countries to do

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that that's not going to happen there

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are still plenty of them not even

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spending two percent so what they hope

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to do at this Vilnius Summit is

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strengthen the language and say that you

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need to spend at least two percent no

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longer just reach two percent but go

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above it but they're not going to be

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able to hold them to that with any sort

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of sanctions as it seems now if only

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Terry the midi was largely focused as

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you say on planning for the Vilnius

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Summit next month Ukraine would like to

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be invited to join in there will that

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happen

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Secretary General stoltenberg said in

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very clear terms at his press conference

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just just a bit ago that there will not

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be an invitation to Ukraine to join so

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that must have you know struck like like

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a knife in Ukrainian Hearts because they

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had really hoped that with everything

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they've done the way they feel they're

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defending Europe themselves that they

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would be offered to join uh but what

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what Secretary General soldenberg

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explained is that they will all work on

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how to get Ukraine more and more close

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to the alliance to get it ready for

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eventual membership he said everyone

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agrees on that but there won't be a

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timeline

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big day in Brussels did the

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correspondent Terry shorts thank you