Verkhovna Rada
of Ukraine has ratified an agreement between the government of Ukraine and NATO
on a status of Alliance's Office in Ukraine that was signed on September 22,
2015.
A total of 251 parliamentarians voted in favor of the
bill No. 0082 at a plenary sitting on Thursday.
The agreement formalizes the diplomatic status of the
NATO Office in Ukraine, which is being formed on the basis of the NATO Liaison
Office and the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine.
As an explanatory note to the law reads, the Office
will favor intensification and extension of the Ukraine's participation in all
the events on cooperation between Ukraine and NATO, meant to present a consultative
aid to state agencies of Ukraine over cooperation with the respective NATO
agencies.
Klimkin during the presentation of the given bill at
Verkhovna Rada's plenary session on February 3 said that the NATO Office in
Ukraine would "be in fact an Embassy of NATO in Ukraine."
"This office would be in fact a full-fledged
embassy. The personnel will make a use of all privileges of the Venice
Commission. All projects, which now work within NATO cooperation, will be
coordinated via this office," the minister said.
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