The state security Council of Ukraine adopted the opinion on the creation of a new military doctrine, which now serves specialized institutions, in addition to Thursday will be presented to defence reform, said the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in an interview to Ukrainian TV channels on Sunday night.
Previous military doctrine of Ukraine were adopted in 2012 under President Viktor Yanukovych, it assumes a neutral status of the country and does not list the countries that have the ability to threaten the country. The Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in early autumn, said that Ukraine needs a new defense doctrine, which clearly must be determined that the Russian Federation is a country-aggressor ", and submitted to the Parliament a draft law on the abolition of non-aligned status and the course in NATO.
" The decision of the Council of national security and defense on the need for development of a new military doctrine, a new defense system, they are adopted, the institutions are working on it, " said Poroshenko.
according to him, the government is preparing a priority reforms in the sphere of defence and security, which will be presented on Thursday." at present, we have greatly expanded the cooperation with foreign advisors who will also be present and will assist us to build now with just wheels defence of the country, " said Poroshenko.
The new military doctrine of the Ukrainian authorities intend to create by December 2015.
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