TRANSATLANTIC CURRENTS
From Vilnius to Washington DC: NATO Summits and the future of Ukraine
Tuesday, 23 January, 2024 at 16:00-17:00 EET/15:00-16:00 CET
At the Summit in Vilnius, NATO announced that Ukraine was on an expedited path to membership, although it did not relieve the country from meeting the criteria of a Membership Action Plan. The upcoming Washington Summit in July 2024 under the Biden Administration may be a platform to advance Ukraine’s NATO integration with a formal invitation to begin accession talks. Yet, since the Vilnius Summit, new packages of security assistance from key allies for Ukraine’s battle against Russia have stalled. In the US, requests for Supplemental funding for Ukraine are tied up with assistance to Israel and additional funding for US border security. Recent US polls indicate that a slim majority of Americans continue to support providing assistance to Ukraine, but opinions vary greatly between the major parties. Questions are arising on both sides of the Atlantic on Ukraine’s ability to sustain a counteroffensive and whether to encourage Ukraine to negotiate with Russia to end the conflict.
In this webinar to discuss all these elements is General (and Ambassador) Douglas Lute, former US Ambassador to NATO, Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan and Director of Operations on the Joint Staff. Currently, he is the Chair of the International and Defense Practices, BGR Group, the CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC and the Distinguished Chair of Social Sciences at the US Military Academy at West Point.
Programme
Opening words: Charly Salonius-Pasternak , Leading Researcher, FIIA
Speaker: General Doug Lute , former US Ambassador to NATO
Chair: Deborah McCarthy , Ambassador, Non-Resident Fellow, FIIA
Register to follow the webinar here .