wejust concluded the applause we just concluded the first meeting of the nato ukraine council and all our allies agreed ukraine because my future lies with nato, that is not a surprise to any of us. i hope it is not a surprise to you. allies all agreed to lift the requirements for membership action plan for ukraine and to create a path to nato membership, while ukraine continues to make progress on necessary reforms. we are not waiting for that process to be finished to make the long term commitments that we are making to ukraine s security. i shouldn t be so familiar, mr zelensky and i talked about the kind of guarantees to commit in the meantime. when i was in ukraine we met in other places. and so today the long term commitments we are making are backed up by the notion,
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