KYIV. UkraineGate . 13 . September . 2022 | Political News .
Today, the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak and the 12th Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen presented recommendations on security guarantees for Ukraine.
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As noted, an expert group was working on the preparation of the recommendations, which included specialists from all over the democratic world: former prime ministers, ministers, other high-ranking officials and scientists.
The recommendations include:
• the strongest security guarantee for Ukraine is its ability to defend itself against an aggressor in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. For this, Ukraine needs resources to maintain a powerful Armed Forces capable of opposing the armed forces and other paramilitary formations of the Russian Federation.
• this requires multi-year stable investments in Ukraine’s defense and industrial base, large-scale arms transfers and intelligence support from allies, intensive training missions and joint exercises under the auspices of the European Union and NATO.
• security guarantees must be affirmative and clearly formulated; they will outline a series of commitments undertaken by the group of guarantors together with Ukraine. Guarantees should be politically and legally binding on the basis of bilateral agreements, but united within the framework of a joint document on strategic partnership called “Kyiv Security Treaty”.
• the treaty will unite the main group of allied countries and Ukraine. This group of guarantor states may consist of the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Turkey, as well as the countries of Northern Europe and the Baltic, Central and Eastern Europe.
• the package of guarantees includes preventive measures of a military, financial, infrastructural, technical, and informational nature to avoid new aggression, as well as measures that must be taken immediately in the event of a new encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. In addition, the structure of the Kyiv Security Treaty provides for a full-fledged sanctions package against the aggressor country, and may also contain additional components, such as agreements to provide Ukraine with modern air defense/anti-missile systems, regional agreements on security in the Black Sea, etc.
• security guarantees do not replace Ukraine’s desire to join NATO. This aspiration is enshrined in the Ukrainian Constitution and is a sovereign decision of Ukraine. Also, Ukraine is on its way to EU membership. Having acquired it, it will be able to use the provisions on mutual defense. Membership in NATO and the European Union will significantly strengthen Ukraine’s security in the long term.
Source: Ukrgate
