Ukraine–NATO relations

Turkey will play an essential role in NATO's security enhancement efforts, which will include creating two new commands across the Atlantic and within Europe, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an online interview on July 9. 

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called on all allies to provide more support to Turkey, ahead of his official visit to the country scheduled for April 16 with the purpose of preparing the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels in July.

EU leaders pressed Ukraine on Friday to speed up reforms that Europe and the United States hope will bring the country closer to the West but Kiev responded that it needed a promise it could join the bloc, reported Reuters. 

NATO's relationship with Russia is more difficult than it has been at any point since the end of the Cold War, according to Western defense alliance NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Ukraine's president has asked for discussions to begin on an action plan that could eventually lead to membership of Nato, BBC reported.

Petro Poroshenko said the will of the Ukrainian people was to eventually join the Western military alliance.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said any decision on future membership would be up to the 29 alliance members.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the decisions on military exercises with Russia and the status of the Humanitarian Center in Nis were up to Serbia.

Stoltenberg told Serbian journalists on Wednesday that it was "up to Serbia to decide" and that NATO "respects its neutrality."

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Thursday, June 7, adopted a bill which sets as Ukraine's foreign political objective the accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to an UNIAN correspondent.

The NATO summit in Brussels on May 25, three days after the Manchester suicide bomb attack, was an important gathering not only because it brought together the newly elected Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May with other leaders, but also because they decided to step up NATO's role in the fight against terrorism.

 Cooperation between the European Union and NATO should become stronger, and Bulgaria has vowed to assist this process during its 2018 Presidency of the European Union.'' This was the message of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg who was interviewed by the Bulgarian National Television.

NATO is joining the coalition led by the US to fight Islamic State, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced, AFP has reported.

This will be done during today's summit with US President Donald Trump.