You know,
I think
there are very few people in Europe
or in continental
United States,
in the North American continent,
who thought this man would stand up
and come to the aid assistance
of Ukraine,
increase his military budget.
He stepped up Japan, Japan,
because he understood
that when any
part of the world has 185,000 people,
soldiers crossing the border,
stealing sovereignty from another nation,
that affects the whole world.
I want to thank you again, public
The just concluded
the first meeting of NATO's
Ukraine Council and where
all our allies agreed Ukraine's future
lies in NATO's.
That's not a surprise to any of us,
I don't think.
I hope it's not a surprise to you, Mr.
President.
Allies all agreed to lift
the requirements
for Membership Action Plan
for Ukraine
and to create a path
to NATO's membership.
While Ukraine continues to make progress
on necessary reforms.
But we're not waiting for that process
to be finished
to make the long term commitments
that we're making to Ukraine's security.
Vladimir and I, we
should or shouldn't be so familiar.
Mr.
Zelensky and I
talked about
the kind of guarantees
we could make in the meantime.
When I was in Ukraine, when we met
in other places.
And so today
the the long term commitments
we're making
are backed up by the notion
that in the meantime,
we're going to provide security
to Ukraine.
For its needs and against any aggression
that may occur.
Today, the members of the G7
are launching a joint
declaration of support
for Ukraine to make it clear
that our support will last
long into the future.
This starts a process
by which each of our nations
and any other nation
who wishes to participate
will negotiate
long term bilateral security commitments
with and to Ukraine.
We're going to help
Ukraine build a strong, capable defense
across land, air and sea
for which will force the US
to be a force of stability in the region
and deter against any and all threats.
I want to thank my fellow G7 leaders
and President Zelensky
for their work to make this happen.
I think it's a powerful statement
a powerful statement of our commitment
to Ukraine
as it defends its freedom today
and as it rebuilds the future for.
And we're going to be there
as long as that takes And again,
I thank all my colleagues
for their support for this
Thank you very much, Mr.
President, President Biden,
Prime Minister, consider
Chancellor,
I see you,
Chancellor Schroeder, as prime minister.
Soon I got President Macron,
Prime Minister Trudeau,
Prime Minister Meloni,
President Michel, president on the line.
Great honor to be here.
The outcome of the NATO
summit in Vilnius,
the very much needed and meaningful
success for Ukraine.
And I'm grateful
to all leaders
in NATO countries
for a very practical
and unprecendented support
considering the key to our relations
support for Ukraine today.
There are security guarantees
for Ukraine on the way to need
an important package
of security guarantees.
Today,
we are coordinating with our G7 countries
The framework for security guarantee
that shall be further
extended through arrangements
with our key
partners,
bilateral and multilateral agreements
and Ukrainian delegation is bringing home
significant security victory
for the Ukraine For our country,
where our people, for our children
need all of us.
For us, absolutely.
New security opportunities.
And I think everyone
who made it possible.
Thank you, dear colleagues.
Thanks you.
Thanks. Lithuanian.
And he installed them.
Thank you very much. So I'll bring
President Biden made
very clear that, look, this joint
declaration is all about a long
lasting future
of security for Ukraine, that the U.S.
and other NATO allies
will be involved in.
Tell us about the significance of this.
Even though they're not getting
NATO's membership
at this particular summit,
Yeah.
Really, what
President Biden
and these leaders are trying to do
is put behind
some of the tension that arose
heading into this summit
about the fact
that Ukraine would not be offered
a concrete timeline into naito.
And instead,
they are trying to show
what they can offer Ukraine in the here
and now.
And also long
term, down the road of this problem,
this declaration
that was announced today by the president
and G7 leaders,
well, essentially jumpstart
talks between each of the countries
to have these bilateral long
term security commitments.
President Biden
saying that the support
will last long into the future
and what officials.
And you also heard the president
there stress
is that they want to ensure that Ukraine
not just has the ability
to defend themselves now,
but can also deter
and defend themselves
against other future aggression.
And so much of this
is trying to send a message directly
to Russia.
That is what this entire summit
has really been about for President
Biden as he's been trying
to show the strength and unity of Nieto,
especially as we've
also learned
that Nieto could soon be expanding
as Sweden could join the alliance.
And what the president
has repeatedly tried to point to
is that the U.S.
is one of the strongest backers
of Ukraine.
As far as sending military
aid to the country.
And now they're going to try to extend
these long term
security commitments
to them into the future.
And so in just a short while,
we will also see
President Biden
and Zelensky
sit down
one on one
face to face for a private meeting.
We expect that reporters will be allowed
into a portion of that
which will be another show of unity
that the president can demonstrate
against Russia
as Vladimir
Putin continues to wage this war
against Ukraine.
And as officials here at the summit
have been arguing,
that the shows of strength,
the shows of unity and support
for Ukraine
and within the alliance show
that Putin's war
is backfiring
against the very thing
that he had hoped against.
And as we've been watching,
as you were talking earlier,
we were watching live
the family photo
of the G7 leaders in the gathering
with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy.
Nick, what do you
what does that photo represent?
What does this moment represent?
Yeah,
I think what we've just witnessed is
President Zelensky being
the consummate diplomat for Ukraine.
He may not have gotten quite
what he wanted, but he took it.
Well, look, he
what we got the version of it.
Zelensky we had yesterday was the warrior
diplomat coming in, charging,
demanding some things that these,
you know,
given a timeline, absurd that
that he didn't get to decide
whether he was standing on the stage
with the leaders of the G7 nations
and a couple of EU presidents,
presidents there as well.
And he called it
he called them all out by name,
thanked them all by name.
This is him being a diplomat.
And I think the the piece of diplomacy
that wrapped it up there
and this is what is signaling back
home and I think is signaling
that he feels he got as
far as he could go.
He said we can bring back home
a significant security victory.
So he is telling his people
and is telling his interlocutors
that his God, as good as he could get,
that these security guarantees
that will be negotiated,
these long term guarantees
and partnerships
that will now be begin to be negotiated.
This is good.
This is what he wanted.
He didn't get 100% of what he wanted,
but he's got enough to take home
and he knows is pushed
as far as he can go this time.
But we've all seen Zelensky before.
He will keep this up about trying to get
NATO's membership,
making sure
it's fast tracked,
thanking everyone
for everything that they're done,
thanking them
for the taking out one of the steps,
the membership,
pointing out
that they've been doing a lot
together already.
And that helps the situation
that that shows that
that shows
that Ukraine is on the right path,
postured and positioned
to become a European
Union member,
as well as as a NATO member.
So, yes,
this was the diplomat,
the real consummate diplomat version of
Zelensky we just witnessed.
Thanks, Nic Robertson, for that analysis.
Let's go to Kim Dozier.
I want to ask you about NATO's itself
and where it's out right
now, because back
when Donald Trump was president,
it was no secret that at one point
he discussed pulling the U.S.
out of Nieto
and trying to sort of weaken
that alliance.
How does what happened in this particular
very important summit strengthen NATO's
you've got one more country
that is now going to be allowed in.
And does this put a lot of pressure
on Vladimir Putin?
Well, it does bring it up
to 32 once Sweden is officially in.
Of course, Hungary's got a hungry
parliament has to ratify that first
as well as Turkey.
But what it does is send
a powerful message to Moscow
that combined with these
new security guarantees towards Ukraine,
that this is a marathon for NATO,
not a sprint,
that if you thought
that you, Vladimir Putin,
could wait us out
and use the mass of your population
four times the size of Ukraine to
grind them down
we are going
to be here the whole time,
keeping them supplied.
And we're also going to be a
we're going to be doing a
we're going to keep sanctioning you.
We're going
to keep
putting you under economic duress.
So the combination is NATO's stronger
bringing Sweden and Finland in.
They both actually have pretty advanced
defense industries
that strengthens NATO's militarily.
So overall,
this is a win
win for NATO and LOSE-LOSE for Moscow.
And one last thing.
Biden
allying himself in this way
with Ukraine will make it really hard
if there is a change in U.S.
presidents come the next election
for any future president
to back away from this support