Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has sent an application to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for Ukraine's accession to the NATO Enhanced Opportunity Program, Radio Liberty reported referring to a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission in Brussels.
According to the website, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko in Brussels said that the Enhanced Opportunity Program is a way to closer cooperation and compliance with uniform standards, so the Allies will be very carefully considering the application filed by the Ukrainian president to the NATO secretary general.”
This is a very complicated and fastidious mechanism that requires serious interaction on our part and on the part of NATO. One of the biggest obstacles has been the lack of a technical agreement on the classified information exchange. On September 28, the technical agreement will be signed in Brussels, which will allow bringing our interaction in the area of sensitive information on a completely different level. This was a technical obstacle that did not permit us to do a lot,” Radio Liberty quoted Prystaiko as saying.
The NATO headquarters hosted a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at the level of diplomats. The agenda of the meeting included issues related to the security situation in and around Ukraine, the situation in Russia-annexed Crimea, the development of Minsk and Normandy processes.
