Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Ministry expects that the annual national
program on Ukraine's cooperation with NATO to become in April a
document to define a procedure of Ukraine's activities for that year in
terms of its integration with NATO, UKRINFORM reported.
“The program is being actively prepared. For today, from the point
of view of the MFA, a preliminary variant of the annual national
program in being completed,” MFA Spokesman Vasyl Kyrylych announced.
According to him, the MFA expects that all key positions of the
document be coordinated shortly and the document will be delivered, in
line with the procedure, for consideration by the NATO Secretariat.
As reported, last week ex-Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko voiced
confidence that Ukraine has the opportunity to become a candidate
country for NATO accession in a year or two.
On March 13, President Viktor Yushchenko said that Ukraine's NATO
accession would become a guarantee for the country's national
sovereignty and territorial integrity. He also noted that there is no
other alternative for Ukraine than accession to the Alliance.
