Interfax-Ukraine
June 4, 2014
NATO to support Ukrainian army report
NATO looks forward to working with the new president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and intends to support reforms in Ukraine’s security and defense sector, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said.
“NATO looks forward to working with the new president of Ukraine and is committed to supporting reforms in Ukraine’s security and defense sector,” he said at a press conference in Brussels.
In his words, NATO member states will finalize a comprehensive package of long-term measures to make Ukraine’s reforms more effective, and its armed forces stronger.
Rasmussen said that defense ministers of NATO member states have agreed to reinforce collective defense with more air and sea patrols, and through more exercises and training from the Baltic to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.”
“We agreed that we will continue to reinforce NATO’s collective defense, with more air and sea patrols, and more exercises and training. From the Baltic to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean,” he said.
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