The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine blessed an agreement with NATO on the status of the representation of the Commonwealth in the country, according to a decree of the Ukrainian government.

"To approve the draft agreement between the government of Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty regarding the status of mission of the NATO in Ukraine ", - reported in the document.

According to information posted on, now the country has NATO liaison office and the center for information and documentation.

at the end of December last year, the Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on the cancellation of Ukraine's non-aligned status. However, he noticed that Kiev for five or six years will be determined on the issue of joining NATO.

former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that Ukraine's accession to the Alliance, it will need to achieve a number of features, implementation of which will leave a large number of time. While NATO does not accept countries that have territorial discussions, and Ukraine claims to the Crimea, which became part of Russia following a referendum in March 2014. Experts believe that Ukraine will not be able to qualify for membership in NATO in the next 20 years.

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