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Progress of Ukraine’s reform efforts reviewed
Two senior NATO bodies, the Political Committee and the Political-Military
Steering Committee, visited Ukraine on 6 and 7 November to review progress
in implementing the NATO-Ukraine Annual Target Plan for 2003.
The Annual Target Plan sets out specific Ukrainian measures as well as
joint NATO-Ukraine actions to be pursued in 2003 in jointly agreed areas,
covering political and economic issues, information issues, security,
defence and military issues, information protection and security, and
legal issues.
The visit aimed to take stock of progress achieved to date
ahead of further discussions. Members of the two committees
also took part in two events organised by the NATO Information
and Documentation Centre in Ukraine in cooperation with a local
NGO, the Civic League NATO-Ukraine. The first workshop, organised
in Kiev on 7 November at the Institute for International Relations
of the University T. Shevchenko, focused on the prospects and
challenges for Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration and gave NGOs
the opportunity to share their perspectives, opinions and concerns on
the future of the Ukraine’s integration with Euro-Atlantic
structures.
The second round-table was organised in Zhytomir, west of Kiev, and
focused on the mutual benefits of NATO-Ukraine cooperation. The event
included
the opening of the first NATO information stand, at the Zhytomir Municipal
Library, offering NATO documentation and publications in Ukrainian.
The opening is part of a NATO-funded initiative to launch NATO information
stands in major universities and municipal libraries in Ukraine.
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