The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced the opening of the Kiev office of NATO

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in his forthcoming visit to Kiev will sign an agreement on the opening of a NATO office in Kiev, said on the first day of the week according to the results of negotiations with the Secretary General of the Commonwealth foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.
"NATO office starts its work as soon as possible ", ? Klimkin said, without naming a specific date forthcoming visit Stoltenberg, betrays news Agency. He noted that during the visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Ukraine in September will be concluded consensus on the extension of official diplomatic status of the representation of the Commonwealth in Ukraine.
"We agreed with the Secretary General to sign during the visit, the agreement on the status of the NATO mission in Ukraine. We are moving away from the concept of the NATO liaison office and create, a truly, present residence of the Ambassador of NATO in Ukraine ", ? quoted expression Klimkin " UKRINFORM ", without elaborating on what the arrangements are being discussed. In addition, According to Klimkin, the NATO Secretary General as part of his upcoming visit with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will take part in the opening ceremony of the exercises on response to crisis situations in the field of civil defense. He noted that the story is about the participation of NATO Secretary General at the opening exercises of the "Ukraine-2015", 21-25 September on jaworowski polygon in the Lviv region." This will be a landmark visit, as head of the Commonwealth, together with the President of Ukraine will take part in the official opening ceremony of the exercises in the field of security. Similarly, in the framework of the visit for the first time in NATO's history and in the history of Ukraine the Secretary-General at the invitation of the President of Ukraine to participate in the meeting of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine ", ? quoted expression Klimkin RIA " Novosti ". It is planned that at the meeting of the NSDC of Ukraine will be accepted military doctrine and strategic defense Bulletin. August 25, the Ukrainian government approved the first five agreements on bringing military power of the state to the standards of the North Atlantic Commonwealth. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on December 23 last year made changes to 2 of the law of the state, renouncing non-aligned status of the country. However, experts believe that Ukraine will not be able to qualify for membership in NATO in the next 20 years. In addition, on 6 February, the adviser to the Minister of defence of Ukraine Alexander Danilyuk acknowledged that his country is unlikely to be accepted into the Alliance, and therefore should lead their own "Union security" in the post-Soviet space. The day before the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande has specifically said that his country remains " would not want to see Ukraine in NATO ".


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