{"id":18128,"date":"2023-10-06T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T08:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=18128"},"modified":"2023-10-06T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T08:07:27","slug":"nato-ukraine-council-meets-in-brussels-to-discuss-kyivs-accession-to-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/nato-ukraine-council-meets-in-brussels-to-discuss-kyivs-accession-to-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO-Ukraine Council meets in Brussels to discuss Kyiv\u2019s accession to Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olga Stefanishyna&nbsp;arrived in Brussels on October 4, 2023, to participate in the latest meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana and focused on finding ways to hasten Kyiv\u2019s accession into the Alliance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ukrainian side presented an updated plan of political, security, and defense reforms&nbsp;during the meeting. The updated program is a part of Ukraine\u2019s larger Annual National Program (ANP), a control tool for monitoring Ukraine\u2019s correspondence with NATO members and Kyiv\u2019s accession into the alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program focuses on improving Kyiv\u2019s position in certain areas to&nbsp;achieve full interoperability with the Alliance. This includes effective civilian control over security and defense forces, ensuring integrity, transparency, and accountability, the transformation of defense policy and planning, modernization of command and control systems, improvement of the strategic communications system, further transition to NATO standards, digital transformation, cyber security, information security, and information exchange, the transformation of the defense industry and the introduction of modern technologies, and the expansion of opportunities in the field of rehabilitation and reintegration of war veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;NATO member states will make their contribution into the ANP, so by the end of 2023 we must start the implementation of the measures that will bring us closer to NATO membership,&#8221; Stefanishyna said in a tweet after the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glad to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StefanishynaO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StefanishynaO<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NATO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NATO<\/a>. We discussed implementing key <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NATOSummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NATOSummit<\/a> decisions to support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a>, including work to achieve full interoperability of the Ukrainian forces with NATO, and the importance of Ukraine&#8217;s continued reforms.<br><br>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I6EQ4C8Pyg\">https:\/\/t.co\/I6EQ4C8Pyg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NDi7CSXWiP\">pic.twitter.com\/NDi7CSXWiP<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Mircea Geoana (@Mircea_Geoana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mircea_Geoana\/status\/1709626964934332619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NATO also released a statement regarding the meeting which emphasized that Ukraine&#8217;s security has &#8220;great importance&#8221; in the alliance. The statement added that Geoana &#8220;commended allies and Ukraine\u2019s efforts to quickly implement decisions from the Vilnius Summit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Allies continue to provide substantial assistance to Ukraine, including through NATO\u2019s Comprehensive Assistance package, and are taking forward important work to ensure Ukraine\u2019s forces are fully interoperable with NATO,&#8221; it said. &#8220;All of this means that Ukraine is closer to NATO than ever before.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Secretary General Commended Allies and Ukraine\u2019s efforts to quickly implement decisions from the Vilnius Summit. The statement said that Allies continue to provide substantial assistance to Ukraine, including through NATO\u2019s Comprehensive Assistance package, and are taking forward important work to ensure Ukraine\u2019s forces are fully interoperable with NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NATO-Ukraine-flag.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NATO-Ukraine-flag.jpeg?resize=842%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NATO and Ukraine flags\" class=\"wp-image-18131\" width=\"842\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NATO-Ukraine-flag.jpeg?w=786&amp;ssl=1 786w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NATO-Ukraine-flag.jpeg?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NATO-Ukraine-flag.jpeg?resize=768%2C448&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><sup>NATO and Ukraine flags. (Image Credit: Ministry of Defence of Ukraine)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The NATO-Ukraine Council was set up during the&nbsp;NATO annual summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. The council focuses on building cooperation and coordination between the Western military alliance and the Ukrainian administration to advance political dialogue, engagement, cooperation, and Ukraine\u2019s aspirations for membership in NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, there have been three meetings for the NATO-Ukraine Council including the inaugural meeting that took place during the NATO summit in Vilnius. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg convened the second NATO-Ukraine Council meeting in July which was called to address the serious security situation in the Black Sea after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olga Stefanishyna arrived in Brussels on October 4, 2023, to participate in the latest meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council. 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