Washington would have offered kyiv “security guarantees” inspired by those of NATO but without membership, report the Italian Prime Minister as well as diplomatic sources
The United States would have proposed a security guarantee inspired by article 5 on Saturday of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), but without formal membership on Saturday, but without a diplomatic source that requested anonymity to the France-Presse Agency (AFP). For the moment, this is discussions whose contours remain vague.
“Like one of the security guarantees for Ukraine, the American part proposed an article 5 type guarantee, outside NATO, with the a priori agreement of [Vladimir] Poutine »underlined this source. She adds that this proposal was made to kyiv on Saturday during the telephone call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky and “Reiterated” Then during the continuation of this call with European leaders.
The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, who participated in the call, also said that the American president had raised this idea, that she has been supporting for several months. In a press release, Mme Meloni said that it would be to start defining “A collective security clause that would allow Ukraine to obtain the support of all its partners, including from the United States, ready to act in the event that it is attacked again”.
Article 5 of the NATO Treaty poses the principle of mutual defense: if a member country is attacked, all the others are used.
Another source aware of the file, also expressed under the cover of anonymity, confirmed to AFP that the idea of protection inspired by that of NATO had been mentioned during the call on Saturday.
