UKRAINE AT THE WORLD SCENE
INFORMATION ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES OF UKRAINE
Ukraine conducts considered, consistent and purposeful activity in foreign
policy, accordingly, main ways of its foreign policy in the whole stay
invariable from the time when independence was proclaimed in 1991.Ukraine
successively and steadily builds its foreign policy on the base of strictly
sticking to principles of international law, UNO Charter and other international
legal acts. Such position of our country is confirmed in "Basic ways of
foreign policy of Ukraine" approved by Verkhovna Rada on July 2nd 1993.
This is a conceptual document that activity of Ukraine in foreign policy
is grounded on.At this stage the following three main ways of activity
of Ukraine in foreign policy can be singled out:1) development of bilateral
intergovernmental relationships;2) European and Euro-Atlantic integration;3)
multilateral diplomacy.There are two chief ways of activity of Ukrainian
diplomacy in bilateral relationships:- relationships with neighbour countries;-
relationships with strategically important partners and influential countries
of the world.European and Euro-Atlantic integration first of all
means the following:- further political and institutional rapprochement
with EC and evolutional advancement to the end goal, integration of Ukraine
to European Community;- adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the norms
of EC and Council of Europe as a key integration element;- intensification
of relationships of Ukraine with NATO as one of the components of the overall
system of European stability and safety.The following chief ways of activity
in foreign policy can be singled out in the bounds of multilateral diplomacy:-
maintenance of effective participation of the country in the activity of
international organizations;- establishment of effective regional and subregional
cooperation, increase of the role of Ukraine in regional and subregional
organizations, forums and associations;- activation of activity in multilateral
agreements in the field of disarmament including nuclear, actions of confidence,
peacemaking and supportive operations, safety regimes and control mechanisms. |
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