Principles and Commitments: What Could an Agreement to Guarantee Ukraine’s Security Look Like?

CSDS POLICY BRIEF • 20/2023

By Elie Perot

29.06.2023

A key issue that leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation will be discussing at the forthcoming summit in Vilnius is the type of security guarantees that they will be willing to provide to Ukraine. This Policy Brief puts forward the text of a possible agreement to guarantee Ukraine’s security in the interim period before its Euro-Atlantic integration, should that happen. Such an agreement would involve a group of NATO and European Union countries undertaking to help Ukraine defend itself, to consult each other in the event of a threat against Ukraine and to cooperate closely with it in the event of an armed attack on Ukrainian territory – although this would not amount to a fully-fledged commitment to collective defence. In addition, the agreement in which these commitments would be made should be explicitly framed as a bridge towards Ukraine’s eventual accession to NATO and the EU.

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