Brussels - The foreign ministers of the EU member states at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, July 22 approved a decision to send a police mission to Ukraine as part of the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy, the press office of the European Council has said.
According to the report, the ministers adopted two decisions, in
particular, on the sending of an advisory mission for civilian security
sector reform, as well as on talks with Ukraine on the status of the
mission.
According to the European External Action Service, the mission will
be composed of representatives of the civil police and the judiciary,
who will initially focus on supporting the elaboration of revised
security strategies and the rapid implementation of reforms, in
coordination and coherence with other EU efforts, as well as with the
OSCE and other international partners.
The mission’s headquarters will be in Kyiv, but regional outreach to
support advisory tasks will start as soon as feasible. The decision
allocates a budget of 2.68 million euros for the start-up phase of the
mission, i.e. until Nov. 30. The mandate of the mission is designed
for two years.
The European External Action Service did not specify how many people would work in the mission.
