NATO will not close the door to Georgia and Ukraine. Such a statement made Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy.
“NATO can certainly not renege on the “Open Door” principle and commitments towards Kiev and Tbilisi taken in 2008 at the Bucharest Summit, which permit the entry of Ukraine and Georgia at a time in the future. But we know this is a “red line” for Moscow.
A conflict that from 2014 to today has already caused 15,000 victims including soldiers, fighters and civilians; a million and a half internal refugees in Ukraine, and 500,000 in Russia. The Government of Italy is working to help avert a military escalation in Ukraine”, - said Luigi Di Maio.