UKRAINE IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO JOINING NATO AND EU – BUT A LONG ROAD REMAINS

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

Source: The Presidential Administration of Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a phone conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Mr Poroshenko informed the Secretary General of the developments in the Donbas and stressed the importance of deploying multinational peacekeeping forces under the UN mandate in the occupied part of the Donbas. The Head of State stressed that Ukraine continued to implement the course of Euro-Atlantic integration and reform of the security and defense sector in accordance with the NATO standards and with the involvement of the Alliance's practical assistance. In this regard, the Secretary General of the Alliance praised the recent adoption of the Law on the National Security. The parties discussed preparations for Ukraine's participation in the NATO Summit in Brussels in July 2018.



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