{"id":19797,"date":"2025-03-22T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=19797"},"modified":"2025-03-22T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T08:01:10","slug":"zelensky-largely-concedes-ukraine-wont-join-nato-u-s-envoy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/zelensky-largely-concedes-ukraine-wont-join-nato-u-s-envoy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky largely concedes Ukraine won&#8217;t join NATO, U.S. envoy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has largely conceded that Ukraine will not be able to join NATO, said Steven Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s envoy to the Middle East, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky and Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president&#8217;s office, have &#8220;largely conceded that they are not going to be a member of NATO,&#8221; he said in an interview with U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s going to be a peace deal, Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO. I think that&#8217;s largely accepted,&#8221; said Witkoff. The envoy also claimed that the Ukrainian leadership has agreed to hold elections, without giving details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you think there will be elections in Ukraine?&#8221; Carlson asked. &#8220;Yes. There will be. They&#8217;ve agreed to it. There will be elections in Ukraine,&#8221; Witkoff responded.<\/p>\n<p>A presidential election was expected to be held in 2024 but was postponed due to the country&#8217;s martial law, which has been in effect since the start of the ongoing conflict with Russia. A month ago, Trump labeled Zelensky a &#8220;Dictator without Elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has largely conceded that Ukraine will not be able to join NATO, said Steven Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s envoy to the Middle East, on Friday. Zelensky and Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president&#8217;s office, have &#8220;largely conceded that they are not going to be a member of NATO,&#8221; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19799,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions\/19799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}