NATO calls on Ukraine to fully use Enhanced Opportunities Partner status

“There are also the issues of situational awareness, exchange of information, which is done more intimately, which is also very important. So I do believe that this status is bringing a lot. And I encourage our Ukrainian friends to fully benefit and fully use this very important instrument at our disposal,” NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine news agency,

According to him, this new status gives an aspirant country like Ukraine access to more NATO exercises.

“And we see already a positive impact of the new status on the exercises. I think we have 11 exercises that we are doing together including the most recent one - Sea Breeze, which was co-led by Ukraine and the US. We had 32 nations participating. That is a massive transformation,” Geoană stressed.

As reported, on June 12, 2020, the Alliance granted Ukraine the Enhanced Opportunities Partner (EOP) status.

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