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Defence reform in Ukraine
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At the request of the Ukrainian authorities, a NATO team visited Kyiv
on 1-6 February 2004 to take stock of the progress achieved by the
Ministry of Defence in conducting a comprehensive defence review and
to assess in which areas NATO could assist Ukraine in implementing
defence and security sector reform.
The team was headed by NATO’s Assistant Secretary General
for Defence Policy and Planning, Mr John Colston, who also met the
Ukrainian Minister of Defence, Mr Yevhen Marchuk, the Head of the
National Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration, Mr Volodymyr Horbulin,
the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration for Internal Policy,
Mr Olexandr Belov, and the Deputy Secretary of the National Security
and Defence Council, Mr Serhiy Pyrozkhov.
NATO is committed to assisting Ukraine in carrying forward its defence
and security sector reforms, with the aim of restructuring and reorganising
Ukraine's national defence and security establishment into an effective
organisation.
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