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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) listens as US President Joe Biden (C) speaks during the closing ceremony at the NATO 75th anniversary summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on July 11, 2024. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau / POOL / AFP)

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) listens as US President Joe Biden (centre) speaks during the closing ceremony at the Nato 75th anniversary summit on July 11.

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International summits are heavily choreographed affairs; everything, including the text of the final communique, is agreed upon well in advance.

And so it was with the just-concluded Washington summit of Nato, the United States-led military alliance of 30 European and two North American states.

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