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Allied leaders stand for a group photo at the Nato summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. AFP

In lieu of formal membership, Nato offers Ukraine a string of guarantees

Sweden's Nato membership and Turkey's purchase of new F-16 fighter jets from the United States seem to have been included in a bigger package deal negotiated during the summit

Omer Onhon 12 July 2023
Heads of State and Government pose for the official group photo during the Nato summit at the Ifema congress centre in Madrid, on June 29, 2022. AFP

What's on the agenda at the Nato summit?

Nato's resolve in facing down Russian aggression is strong and the alliance's summit will show that. But its agenda will be long and complex. Al Majalla takes a look at what to expect.

Omer Onhon 09 July 2023
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) poses with a miniature model of a transport plane Airbus A400M at the military air base in Jagel, southern Germany, during the Air Defender Exercise 2023 on June 16, 2023. AFP

Germany leads the charge in European security

Massive Nato air force exercises are following Berlin's re-drawn view of the world as Olaf Scholz appears to be accepting a bigger role for his country

Khaled Hamadeh 23 June 2023
Anti-war protesters hold placards during a demonstration against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in front of the Nato headquarters in Brussels on March 16, 2022, as Nato Defence Ministers hold a meeting over the war in Ukraine. AFP

Can Western unity survive the new multipolar world?

In the multipolar world, alliances are more fluid and flexible, allowing states to court several global powers at once

Christopher Phillips 20 May 2023
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks during the annual Society and Defence Conference in Salen, Sweden, January 8, 2023. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery via REUTERS

Sweden Says Turkey Asking Too Much Over NATO Application

Sweden is confident that Turkey will approve its application to join the NATO military alliance, but will not meet all the conditions Ankara has set for its support, Sweden's prime minister said on…

08 January 2023
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (not pictured) at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

Serbia to Ask NATO to Deploy Serb Military, Police in Kosovo

Serbia will ask NATO peacekeepers to let it deploy Serbian military and police in Kosovo, although it believes there is no chance of the request being approved, President Aleksandar Vucic said on…

10 December 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst


Biden Says He Has No Plans to Contact Putin, Prepared To Talk About Ending Ukraine War

U.S. President Joe Biden said he has no immediate plans to contact Vladimir Putin but is prepared to speak with the Russian president if he shows an interest in ending the war in Ukraine, and only in…

01 December 2022
Polish police officers search for missile wreckage in the field, near the place where a missile struck, killing two people in a farmland at the Polish village of Przewodow, near the border with Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Poland, NATO Say Missile Strike Wasn’t A Russian Attack

NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said that a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people appeared to be unintentional and was probably launched by air…

AP 16 November 2022
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attends a news conference during the Informal EU 27 Summit and Meeting within the European Political Community at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, October 6, 2022. REUTERS/Eva Korinkova

Poland's President Says No Indication Missile Strike on Village Was Intentional

Poland's president said on Wednesday there was no indication the rocket strike that killed two in southeast Poland was intended to hit the country. "There is no indication that this was an…

16 November 2022
A passerby walks past an electric monitor displaying the graph of recent movements on Japanese yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar in Tokyo, Japan, October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Stocks Pare Losses, Dollar Falls After Biden Defuses Tensions Over Poland Blast

Global stocks pared losses and the dollar fell on Wednesday after U.S. President Joe Biden told G7 and NATO partners that a missile blast in Poland was caused by a Ukrainian defence missile,…

16 November 2022
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