TALLINN. May 5 (Interfax) - Estonia's objective at the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius is granting Ukraine a clear action program for joining the alliance, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said at a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on Friday.
Tsahkna and Stoltenberg discussed the alliance's support for Ukraine and preparations for the Vilnius summit in July, the Estonian Foreign Ministry's press service said.
"Just as Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky recently stated in Finland, we would also like Ukraine to become the alliance's 33rd full member after Sweden," Tsahkna said.
"NATO membership is Ukraine's only security guarantee," he said.
He also called on the NATO member states to start implementing the new strategy agreed upon in Madrid in 2022.
"In the new security situation, all allies should increase their defense spending to 2.5% of their GDP by 2030. Estonia's defense spending will rise to more than 3% of its GDP as early as next year," Tsahkna said.
He said he hoped that Turkey and Hungary would ratify Sweden's membership of the alliance before the Vilnius summit in July.