FAC Chairs Call for Full Implementation of Bucharest NATO Summit Decisions
on Ukraine’s NATO Membership
June 1, 2023
We, the Chairs of our respective parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committees,
recognise
the importance of fully implementing Bucharest decisions and permanently
eradicating grey security areas in Europe, as well as the current uncertainty surrounding Ukraine’s
NATO membership, as this encourages further Russian aggression, impedes the successful
democratic development of the entire region and jeopardises the rules-based international order,
draw attention
to the fact that Ukraine’s membership in NATO would consolidate
sustainable peace not only in Ukraine but also in Europe as a whole, demonstrating that Russia
has no veto power over NATO’s enlargement, that Ukraine is free to choose which security and
defence organizations to align with, and that Ukraine is not in Russia’s sphere of influence,
considering
that the democratic world is increasingly threatened by the fragmentation of
the rules-based international order and that the window of opportunity to build a whole and free
Europe and defend the rules-based international order is closing,
looking forward
to the historic significance of the Vilnius NATO Summit in sending a clear
message that autocracies are failing to undermine global democracy and peace, that it is only
through NATO’s efforts that peace has lasted for nearly 75 years,
highlighting
the fact that Ukraine’s victory over Russia’s aggression and Ukraine’s
membership in NATO would consolidate sustainable peace not only in Ukraine but also in all of
Europe and globally in maintaining the rules-based international order;
noting
that the Euro-Atlantic values that unite NATO member countries are currently being
defended and protected, first and foremost, by the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the
aggressor, and that Ukraine is now a security provider, and Ukraine’s membership in NATO would
significantly strengthen the Alliance,
emphasising
the fact that Ukraine’s membership in NATO would be far more effective and
less costly than the current defence assistance currently provided to Ukraine.
Therefore we call NATO and its Heads of States and Governments to make the NATO Vilnius
Summit to create a clear path for Ukraine accession to NATO and give clear and strong security
guarantees for Ukraine.
We are confident that Ukraine’s NATO membership would greatly contribute to the
Alliance’s security and would help the Russian society to finally get rid of the imperial dreams,
which Putin is using to consolidate his regime.
Accordingly, we should increasingly deeper integration of Ukraine into NATO’s structures
and processes prior to Ukraine’s accession to NATO.