Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze says President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will sign a program of cooperation with NATO for the current year in the near future.
“We expect that in the near future an annual program of cooperation with NATO will be signed by the president,” she said at a press briefing on “Actual Challenges for Implementing the Association Agreement. Progress in implementing the Action Plan for 2018” in Kyiv on March 26.
According to Klympush-Tsintsadze, the new program significantly increased the number of tasks aimed at implementing reforms, in particular, in the field of security and defense.
She also noted that the program includes the formation of a national system for preventing and responding to contemporary threats to national security.
In addition, a separate component of the program is the activities of a platform for countering hybrid threats, ensuring equal rights for women and men in the security and defense sector, creating a system of state guarantees for the quality of defense products.
“On March 28, we will host a Ukraine-NATO commission at the level of the ambassadors of NATO member countries in Brussels, where we will be able to present the provisions of the national program as much as possible,” the deputy prime minister said.
As it was reported, in the middle of February the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the program of cooperation with NATO for 2018.
