Rada ratifies agreement on diplomatic status of NATO representative office in Ukraine

Ukrainian MPs have approved a law on ratifying agreement between the Ukrainian government and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the status of NATO representative office in Ukraine.

A total of 251 MPs voted on a relevant decision, an Ukrinform correspondent report.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that the agreement formalizes a diplomatic status of NATO representative office in Ukraine, which is created on the basis of the NATO Liaison Office (NLO) and the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine.

“For the first time NATO as an international organization will open its consolidating representative office in Ukraine. And this is an additional evidence of special partnership between Ukraine and NATO,” he noted.

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