NATO-Ukraine Charter

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The NATO-Ukraine Charter is a military partnership agreement between NATO and Ukraine that was adopted on July 9, 1997 at the NATO summit in Madrid .

According to this, Ukraine undertakes, by decision of the North Atlantic Council, to participate in military operations of the Combined Joint Task Force CJTF , which are either carried out with a mandate from the UN Security Council or are under the direction of the OSCE .

Consultations are held on disarmament and control issues ( Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ) and arms and technology transfer. The charter enables military training and PfP exercises.

Since then, NATO has maintained an information and documentation center in Kiev , while Ukraine set up a military liaison office in Brussels .

Course of relations between NATO and Ukraine

In 2002, to expand the NATO base, cooperation between NATO and Ukraine was deepened with the NATO-Ukraine Action Plan and Russia was included in the NATO-Russia Council .

It is difficult for Ukraine to join NATO because Russia will not give up the Black Sea Fleet in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea .

In February 2005, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko tried to conclude an action plan with NATO that would lead to Ukraine becoming a member. The application was only supported by a minority of the population, there were protest demonstrations and the parliament of Ukraine decided that an application for membership required a nationwide referendum . Russia responded with warnings and threats. In April 2008, a NATO summit rejected Ukraine's application for membership, even though the US supported it. The prerequisites would first have to be met in a plan (Membership Action Plan, MAP).

During the 2014 Crimean crisis , NATO decided to intensify its contacts with Ukraine, freeze relations with Moscow and suspend planned joint operations with the Russian armed forces. In August 2014, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced a resumption of the NATO course.

Ukraine was officially granted candidate status in March 2018. Georgia and Bosnia-Herzegovina enjoy a similar status. "The door of NATO is open to any European country that is able to fulfill the commitment and obligations of membership and to contribute to security in the Euro-Atlantic area," the alliance said in a March 9 statement.

See also

literature

  • Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert: NATO and Ukraine , in the magazine "Osteuropa", 9/2009, pp. 49–64.
  • Wolfgang Tiede and Christina Schröder: Ukraine on the way to NATO? , in: Osteuropa-Recht , 3/2009, pp. 294–304.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BUCHAREST SUMMIT DECLARATION 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nato.diplo.de
  2. ^ Andreas Kappeler: Brief history of the Ukraine. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58780-1 , p. 297
  3. ↑ Kiev hopes for NATO weapons ( Memento from August 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau.de v. 29th August 2014
  4. ↑ Pressure on Russia initially unsuccessful NZZ v. 5th March 2014
  5. ↑ Kiev hopes for NATO weapons ( Memento from August 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau.de v. 29th August 2014
  6. ↑ NATO Grants Ukraine Status Of 'Aspirant Country' . In: Radio Free Europe , March 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Tiede, Christina Schröder Ukraine on the way to NATO? on nomos-elibrary.de