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General Pavel: over the last 4 years Ukraine has come close to being part of NATO
Ukraine has managed to significantly approach NATO member status over the last four years, as stated by Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Petr Pavel to DW.
Responding to the question on what main problems Ukrainian Armed Forces face now, he said that he could not comment on internal decisions of partners but "Ukraine has already carried out impressive defense reforms and approached NATO more; but there is still work to do.”
Ukraine’s stability is one of the main objectives of these …
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Poroshenko: Ukraine will join NATO within the next decade
President Petro Poroshenko said that Ukraine's goal is to become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) within the next ten years.
He spoke about this during an interview with Hamburger Abendblatt, a subsidiary of the German media company Funke Media Group.
"We are working on NATO membership with particular perseverance. Our goal is to become a member of the Alliance within the next ten years," Poroshenko said.
According to the President the Alliance "would become stronger …
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Merkel makes peace in Donbas one of German government's tasks
For the next four years, one of the tasks of the new German government in the international arena will be to establish peace in the Donbas and to restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine, stated the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her first post-re-election report in the Bundestag on Wednesday.
The Chancellor said, "Work on the implementation of the Minsk agreements will be extended to ensure the restoration of Ukraine sovereignty and to bring relations with Russia to another level." …
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Ukraine scraps the program for economic cooperation with Russia
The Government of Ukraine has terminated the economic cooperation program with Russia for 2011 – 2020, UNIAN news agency reports.
The program assumes the elimination of trade barriers between the two countries. During the government meeting it was decided to terminate the agreement and inform the Russian side of its annulment through the channels of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On March 16, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman promised to do everything to end the " …
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Netherlands names court to hear MH17 case
The suspects in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing flight MH17, which crashed in the Donbas in 2014, will be tried at the District Court of The Hague. This decision was taken by the Dutch Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs.
Relatives of the victims of the plane crash will be allowed to participate in the trial, regardless of their nationality. Thus, all victims will be provided with equal rights.
In addition, all the suspects involved in the crash will be examined over the course of the …