Defence Minister of Ukraine met with NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy

On the eve of the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Working Group for military reforms, Col. Gen. Stepan Poltorak, Minister of Defence of Ukraine, held constructive talks with Ambassador Thrasyvoulos Terry Stamatopoulos, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy.

The parties defined joints plans on further cooperation.

“We see a progress in Ukraine’s MoD reforms and realize, we need to cooperate,” Ambassador Thrasyvoulos Terry Stamatopoulos stressed.

Col. Gen. Stepan Poltorak thanked Assistant Secretary General for support provided by the Alliance nations.

According to Defence Minister, the ongoing situation in the east of Ukraine proves Russia still supports separatism. This policy threatens security of Ukraine and European countries. In this context, head of defence ministry spoke about consolidation of joint efforts aimed at supporting the security reforms.

Col. Gen. Stepan Poltorak announced the important achievement of the MoD along with volunteer organizations, such as implementation of the Board of Reforms at the Ukrainian MoD.

“The goal of this Board is to implement economic, logistic, technical and medical reforms, establishment of efficient mechanism of involvement of public activists and representatives of international organizations in reforms,” Minister underlined.

The parties spoke about NATO-Ukraine cooperation as a key element of national security of Ukraine and defence reforms. As Minister of Defence noted, Ukraine put high hopes on the NATO-Ukraine Commission Meeting to be held on June 25.