Rutte: No consensus for Ukraine to join NATO

Rutte: No consensus for Ukraine to join NATO
Nato Chief Mark Rutte at the alliance office, Brussels, Belgium, 2 Dec 2025.
Reuters

NATO Chief Mark Rutte repeated on Tuesday that the consensus needed for Ukraine to join the alliance is not there at the moment.

Rutte said this while speaking during a press conference at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels.

"The practical situation is, as you know, that there is consensus required by all allies for Ukraine to join NATO. And right now, as you know, there is no consensus on Ukraine joining NATO", he told reporters.

He said on Tuesday that he expected new contributions from allies to the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program, a Ukraine arms funding mechanism, in the coming days.

He also said he welcomed U.S.-led efforts to end the war in Ukraine and that he was confident that these would eventually "restore peace in Europe".

We are all working to bring the war against Ukraine to an end, with a just and lasting peace

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