{"id":3162,"date":"2024-10-16T17:08:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:57:42","slug":"american-nato-rep-responds-to-zelenskys-demand-for-urgent-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/american-nato-rep-responds-to-zelenskys-demand-for-urgent-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"American NATO rep responds to Zelensky\u2019s demand for urgent invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joining the US-led military bloc is not a \u201cshort-term\u201d matter, Julianne Smith, Washington\u2019s permanent representative to the organization, has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kiev\u2019s accession to NATO is not a <em>\u201cshort-term\u201d<\/em> matter, Washington\u2019s permanent representative to the US-led military bloc, Julianne Smith, said on Wednesday following Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s demand for an immediate invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Smith made the remarks at an online media briefing during which she said that the US-led bloc had already made its position on Kiev\u2019s potential accession <em>\u201cvery clear,\u201d<\/em> saying that <em>\u201cUkraine is on an irreversible path of membership and that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance.\u201d<\/em> Its admission, however, is not something that can transpire in the near future, she conceded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are not at the point right now where the alliance is talking about issuing an invitation in the short term. But as always, we will continue conversations with our friends in Ukraine to talk to them about ways in which they can continue to move closer to this alliance,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Vladimir Zelensky.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/670fba6285f540719c0dc177.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/605811-zelensky-presents-victory-plan-nato-membership\/\">Zelensky presents \u2018victory plan\u2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statements come after Zelensky unveiled his long-hyped <em>\u201cvictory plan\u201d<\/em> to the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday. He recently toured Western capitals to discuss the plan with Kiev\u2019s backers in private.<\/p>\n<p>The plan turned out to be a new five-point wish list that includes a demand to immediately accept Ukraine into NATO. Kiev also wants the West to lift restrictions on the use of foreign-made long-range weapons for strikes against Russia, as well as to <em>\u201cdeploy a comprehensive non-nuclear strategic deterrence package\u201d<\/em> on Ukrainian soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining the US-led military bloc is not a \u201cshort-term\u201d matter, Julianne Smith, Washington\u2019s permanent representative to the organization, has said Kiev\u2019s accession to NATO is not a \u201cshort-term\u201d matter, Washington\u2019s permanent representative to the US-led military bloc, Julianne Smith, said on Wednesday following Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s demand for an immediate invitation. Smith made the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}