NATO countries should provide Ukraine with security guarantees that will save it from turning into gray zone - prime ministers of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia
The heads of the governments of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Mateusz Morawiecki, Piotr Fiala and Eduard Geger, published a joint article on the vision of security in the world in the future.
This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to the material published in Foreign Affair magazine.
"It is not too early to plan post-war security guarantees for Ukraine. There will be no investments and sustainable recovery in Ukraine if it cannot protect itself from future aggression," the officials are convinced.
They are convinced that the NATO summit in Vilnius will have to answer "difficult but inevitable questions" about the future of the Alliance, including its relations with Ukraine and its future strategy towards Russia.
"In 2008, the Allies decided that the future of Ukraine (along with Georgia) should include NATO membership. It is time for the Alliance to pave a clear and credible path to Ukraine's membership, if and when Kyiv wishes and when the conditions allow. Until then, we must be ready to provide security guarantees, in addition to political assurances that will not allow Ukraine to turn into a gray zone once and for all. Gray zones create opportunities for authoritarian regimes to sow instability and increase tensions," the material states.
In the matter of Russia, according to the Prime Ministers, "our long-standing two-pronged approach, which includes both deterrence and dialogue, needs to be updated."
"Talking to the wall will not change the behavior of the Russians. Faced with the cessation of dialogue, NATO, as a military-political alliance, must be ready to adjust its strategy on the fly," the text reads.
It is emphasized that the determination to support Ukraine will also help deter aggression in other parts of the world, sending a signal that "tyrants will not be appeased, whether in Europe, Asia, or elsewhere."
"In short, peace can only come on Ukraine's terms. Freezing conflicts is Russia's favorite way to buy time by pretending that it has ended the war it started. A frozen conflict will not bring stability or improve security or economic conditions in the long term." , - said the heads of governments.
