National Radio Company of Ukraine
August 29, 2014
Rasmussen says Ukraine can get NATO membership
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that Ukraine has the right to decide its military political status.
“We fully respect Ukraine’s decisions as regards Ukraine’s security policy and alliance affiliation,” he said in Brussels on Friday, commenting on the Ukrainian government’s decision to lay before parliament a bill resuming the country’s course towards the Euro-Atlantic integration. “I am not going to interfere with political discussions in Ukraine, but let me remind you of NATO’s decision taken at the Bucharest summit in 2008, according to which Ukraine will become a member of NATO provided, of course, that Ukraine so wishes and provided that Ukraine fulfills the necessary criteria,” he added.
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Interfax-Ukraine
August 30, 2014
Batkivschyna initiates all-Ukrainian referendum on NATO’s membership on Oct 26 – Tymoshenko
Batkivschyna leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said that Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union is going to launch procedures necessary to carry a nationwide referendum on NATO’s membership.
According to Tymoshenko, the referendum is planned to be held on the same day as the parliamentary elections, on October 26, she told the journalists in Kyiv on Saturday.
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Interfax-Ukraine
August 30, 2014
Kyiv doesn’t ask West to send troops but expects military-technological aid – Poroshenko
Ukraine expects the international community to provide it with military-technological assistance rather than foreign military personnel, says Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
“We don’t expect that soldiers from other countries will be fighting in Ukraine…,” Poroshenko said at a news conference following a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels on Saturday.
At the same time, Ukraine expects “military-technological assistance from the international community,” Poroshenko said.
“Military-technological cooperation, cooperation in exchanging intelligence, and other aspects are certainly a subject of both bilateral consultations, which are taking place in Brussels today, and the president’s position at the NATO summit to take place in early September,” he said.
Ukraine also expects assistance in the form of non-lethal weapons and equipment, and the EU has expressed its willingness to provide such assistance, Poroshenko said.
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Ukrinform
August 30, 2014
Poroshenko in Brussels says Ukraine will ratify Association Agreement in September
KYIV: President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko assured the European leaders that the Verkhovna Rada will ratify the Association Agreement with the EU in September.
The head of the Ukrainian state said after a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels on Saturday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported.
“During the meeting, I assured that the Verkhovna Rada will ratify the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in September, as we agreed before,” Poroshenko said.
He recalled that ratification would allow the Ukrainian side to begin the temporary application of the provisions of a deep and comprehensive free trade area from November 1, 2014.
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