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NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson and the NATO ambassadors arrived in Ukraine on 29 February for a three-day visit. For the first time ever, a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission took place in the capital Kyiv on 1 March. The Ukrainian delegation was headed by the Ukrainian foreign minister, Boris Tarasyuk, who delivered a welcome address on behalf of President Leonid Kuchma, emphasising the important contribution that the NATO-Ukraine partnership - launched in Madrid in 1997 - has already made to wider Euro-Atlantic cooperation.
The Commission reviewed the situation in the Balkans, and NATO and Ukraine confirmed their determination to continue close cooperation within KFOR to restore security and to work towards a democratic and multi-ethnic Kosovo within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Other topics of discussion included Ukrainian defence reform, the implementation of the Ukrainian national programme for cooperation with NATO to the year 2001 and the effective cooperation between NATO and Ukraine in virtually every aspect of civil emergency planning and disaster preparedness.
Lord Robertson and the ambassadors also met Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko, Defence Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk and members of the Ukraine parliament, Verkhovna Rada.