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The Ukraine - NATO commission has opened its session in Bucharest, Romania. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko have delivered an opening speech.
“Yesterday a clear call was given concerning our support of striving to join NATO. We are now expecting that the attention at high political level will be drawn to meet the requirements”, Scheffer said at opening the session.
He noted that Ukraine has already reached the considerable progress in bringing security and defense sector to NATO’s standards and promised that it will maintain Ukraine’s striving in future.
In its turn, President Yuschenko greeted all the participants of the NATO-Ukraine session.
He has highly appraised the yesterday’s decision, which defined the strict Euroatlantic perspectives for Ukraine, UNIAN reports.
At the session, held within frames of the NATO summit, the parties will discuss important questions of developing future system of collective security in the world.
As Ukrainian News reported, on April 3, NATO postponed the consideration of Ukraine's entry to the NATO Membership Action Plan until December.
At the same time Yuschenko announced that Ukraine received a clear-cut prospect for NATO membership at the Bucharest summit, as Ukrainian News says.
// 04.04.2008 10:16
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/ukraine/2008/4021.shtml
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