NATO member states must agree on a clear route for Ukraine's membership of the military alliance when they meet at a summit next month, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Thursday.
"The only security guarantee that really works, and the cheapest security guarantee that really works is NATO membership," Kallas told reporters ahead of a summit with other European Union government leaders in Brussels.
Speaking at the same summit earlier Thursday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the EU still needed to decide what further security assurances it wishes to provide to Ukraine.
We will have to discuss how far it goes, and if it would be lethal or non-lethal support.
And we have to take into account that several EU countries are not a member of NATO," Rutte said.
Persons:
Kaja Kallas, Kallas, Mark Rutte, Rutte, — Karen Gilchrist
Organizations:
Estonia's, NATO, European Union, Dutch, EU
Locations:
Brussels, Ukraine