"It's important that NATO continues to remain out of the conflict, but it must treat nuclear deterrence as a priority with all eventualities taken into account," he said.
Regarding the future relations between NATO and Ukraine, Hungary continues to support NATO's open door policy, however, in the case of a country at war, putting accession on the agenda is not possible,
he said. Finally, the minister added that he also took this opportunity as well to urge Ukraine to comply with the commitments it made for membership, especially with regard to the rights of national minorities.
NATO allies agree that Ukraine has come closer to membership in the last decade, and therefore the doors of our alliance are open to it, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday in Brussels. At the press conference closing the meeting of the defence ministers of the alliance, he emphasised that Ukraine itself will decide on membership, and Russia will not have the opportunity to prevent it.
"We don't know when this war will end, but as soon as it ends, we must create a framework that guarantees the security of Ukraine," he stressed.
The alliance is working on the creation of a formation called the NATO-Ukraine Council, where Ukraine and Allies will consult and decide on security issues on an equal basis. He added that at the upcoming summit in Vilnius, they would like to hold the first meeting of the new council with the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
NATO member states are close to agreeing on a new common defence plan. "At the summit in Vilnius, we will take steps to further strengthen our deterrence and defences." For the first time since the Cold War, "we are fully connecting the planning for our collective defence with the planning for our forces, capabilities, and command and control”, he announced.
Mr Stoltenberg explained that the alliance's Nuclear Planning Group met to discuss the nuclear aspects of the current security environment and the continuous adaptation of NATO's nuclear deterrence.
He expressed concern that Russia plans to install nuclear weapons in Belarus, that Iran and North Korea continue their nuclear and missile development programs, and that China will not stop its nuclear developments either.
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