Official Kyiv clearly defines the goals of cooperation with NATO, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has said.
“The biggest strategic achievement of the year is that we have finalized our vision of the goals of cooperation with NATO, which is enshrined in legislation: Ukraine’s strategic goal is to achieve membership in the Alliance. This is the concentration of public support for political elites,” Klympush-Tsintsadze said during the conference titled “The 20th anniversary of the distinctive partnership between Ukraine and NATO” in Kyiv on Dec.11.
According to the deputy PM, this year official Kyiv has entered a new format of the annual national program of cooperation with NATO. “This document presents a map of tasks, changes and reforms that we need to make in the context of approaching NATO. We understand that these tasks were identified in the annual program of cooperation with NATO. We have managed to implement something successfully, something not. But every step in this direction is becoming more effective,” she said.
Klympush-Tsintsadze noted that the annual program for 2018 is being developed taking into account public opinion and involving advisors from NATO member countries.
