Baltic Foreign Affairs Committees call on supporting Ukraine’s victory and NATO membership

The Foreign Affairs Committees underline in their Statement that Ukraine’s victory over russia’s aggression and Ukraine’s membership in NATO would consolidate a just and lasting peace not only in Ukraine but also in all of Europe and help to preserve the rules-based international order globally. According to them, Ukraine’s NATO membership would also provide a more effective and enduring framework for safeguarding Euro-Atlantic security.

In the Statement, the Foreign Affairs Committees commit to support Ukraine until its full victory, including the liberation of all temporarily occupied territories, accountability for war crimes, and full implementation of international justice. They also reaffirm their support to Ukraine’s membership in the European Union, with the goal of concluding accession negotiations and welcoming Ukraine as a full member of the European Union by 1 January 2030.

The Committees promise to support Ukraine’s path towards NATO membership, in line with the decisions of the Bucharest, Vilnius and Washington Summits, which clearly affirmed that Ukraine’s future is in NATO. “We call on the upcoming 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague to take concrete political steps that would pave the way for Ukraine’s accession to the Alliance,” they say in the Statement.

The Foreign Affairs Committees welcome the growing practical defence cooperation between Ukraine and like-minded partners and encourage an invitation for Ukraine to join the Joint Expeditionary Force. They also promise to continue diplomatic and political efforts to isolate russia and its supporters in the war within international organisations, to expand and tighten sanctions regimes, and to ensure full legal and political accountability for the crimes committed against Ukraine.

“We call upon the Foreign Affairs Committees of other national parliaments, international parliamentary assemblies, governments, and responsible institutions to endorse this statement and to adopt corresponding actions that would ensure continued and determined support for Ukraine’s victory, reconstruction, and full integration into the Euro-Atlantic community,” they Foreign Affairs Committees of the parliaments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania say in their Joint Statement.

The Foreign Affairs Committees made the Statement at their annual meeting, which this year was held in Birštonas, Lithuania. The Statement was signed by Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia) Marko Mihkelson, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima of Latvia Ināra Mūrniece and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Seimas of Lithuania Remigijus Motuzas.

Text of the Joint Statement in Estonian and in English

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Source: Parliament of Estonia