Czech President Petr Pavel, who led the NATO Military Committee in 2015-2018, said that a territorially reduced Ukraine could join the NATO Alliance, reported RT: “I don’t think that the full restoration of control over the entire territory is a prerequisite. If there is demarcation, even an administrative border, then we can treat this administrative border as a temporary one, and accept Ukraine into NATO with the territory that it will control at that time,” Pavel told the Novinky.cz news website on Aug. 19.
As an example, Pavel pointed to West Germany, which joined NATO in 1955, when the “division of Germany was not accepted by the Western states,” and East Germany was “occupied by the Soviet Union.” Divided for 35 years, Germany was reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet bloc a year later. “So I think there is a solution both technically and legally to allow Ukraine to join NATO without bringing NATO into a conflict with the Russian Federation,” the Czech President argued.
