Mission
- Facilitate practical cooperation under the NATO-Ukraine Commission;
- Enhance cooperation between NATO and Ukrainian authorities
Tasks
- Liaise: Ukrainian, NATO, Allied, and Partner Authorities
- Advise: Ukraine and NATO on current and future cooperation
- Facilitate: Programmes, Projects, Events, Visits
Principle Ukrainian Partners
- Core Executive: the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Security and Defence Council, the Presidential Secretariat
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament)
- Ministry of Defence / Armed Forces
- Security Sector Institutions: the Security Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Emergencies, the State Border Guard Service
- Other Ministries: Economy, Industrial Policy, Finance
- Civil society organizations involved in defence and security issues.
Current Priorities
- Strengthening Ukraine’s implementation of broad Euro-Atlantic reforms:
- Assisting Ukraine in planning and implementing the Annual National Programmes (ANPs)
- Improving inter-agency coordination
- Enhancing NATO-Ukraine political and practical dialogue
- Intensive engagement at a senior political level
- Intensified dialogue on reforms
- Consultation on national security and regional security issues
- NATO-Ukraine Joint Working Groups: Defence Reform / Technical Cooperation / Economic Security
- Supporting transformation and democratic governance of defence and security sector:
- Parliamentary and executive oversight;
- Implementing the National Security Strategy; improving national security system
- Strengthening democratic management: expert engagement and training civil servants (the JWGDR Professional Development Programme)
- Strengthening impact of civil society on national security and defence issues (the NATO-Ukraine Partnership Network for Civil Society Expertise Development)
- Supporting operations and building interoperability to face common challenges:
- KFOR, the Operation Active Endeavor, ISAF, NTM Iraq
- Effective, interoperable commands & staffs at strategic/operational levels
- Deployable, interoperable, sustainable capabilities at operational/unit level
- New security threats, including fight against terrorism and cyber defence
- Addressing legacy issues:
- Munitions Destruction, Safety & Security (the NATO PfP Demilitarization Trust Fund Project)
- Social Protection of Current & Departing Servicemen (the NATO-Ukraine Resettlement Programme)
General
- Founded in April 1999; co-located with the General Staff Euro-Atlantic Integration Directorate
- Staff of 16: Civilian Head (Poland/NATO HQ); 1 NATO civilian (Estonia); 3 NATO military (Lithuania, Poland, Germany); 4 Ukr civilian + 3 project teams (currently 7 staff)
- Close co-operation with the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Kyiv.
