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Ambassadors of NATO member-countries have confirmed their countries' support for the decision that NATO made at its summit in Bucharest (Romania) in April 2008 regarding Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic aspirations.

The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this in a statement.

The head of Ukraine's mission to NATO, Ihor Sahach, informed the ambassador about the current state and the prospects for development of the political and economic situation in Ukraine at a meeting of the Ukrainian-NATO Commission at the level of ambassadors, which took place at the NATO headquarters in Brussels (Belgium).

Sahach also informed the NATO ambassadors about Ukraine's foreign-policy priorities and its peacekeeping efforts in the context of the implementation of Ukraine's annual national plan for preparation for membership of NATO.

The participants in the meeting also discussed the results of the realization of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic aspirations and development of practical cooperation between Ukraine and NATO.

They also discussed the preparation for the meeting of the Ukrainian-NATO Commission at the level of foreign affairs ministers that will take place as part of the meeting of the NATO Euro-Atlantic Council that is planned for early December.

Sahach thanked member-countries of NATO and NATO's Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre for assisting Ukraine in combating the epidemic of the influenza A(H1N1) in Ukraine.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Ukraine said in August that it was hoping that NATO's newly appointed Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen would support the country's NATO membership aspirations.

NATO member-countries agreed at a meeting in Bucharest in April 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would become members of NATO, but they postponed consideration of the issue of admission of Ukraine to the NATO Membership Action Plan until December 2008.