Cooperation between Ukraine and NATO in the anti-missile defense sphere has potential, NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine Marcin Koziel has said.
"There is potential for cooperation between Ukraine and NATO, in particular in the sphere of anti-missile defense," he said at a roundtable discussion entitled "Transatlantic Safety, New Challenges and Architecture of Anti-Missile Defense, Priorities and Prospects for Central and Eastern Europe and Ukraine" in Kyiv on Friday.
He added that Ukraine should develop its own position on the issue.
"I’d like to add and stress, first of all, that Ukraine should have its own strategic position concerning the situation," he said.
Koziel said NATO is eager to cooperate with Ukraine.
In turn, representative of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Yuriy Fedkiv said that NATO is ready to "discuss with its partners the issues related to anti-missile defense and welcomes any proposals, including those from Ukraine, on the issue."
Fedkiv added that regardless of Ukraine’s decision not to continue its way towards NATO membership, there is an annual program [Ukraine-NATO Action Plan], and this program "should become the basis for the cooperation that Ukraine is building with NATO."
"We call on the government of Ukraine to use this tool for reform implementation in full," he said.
