11:17 31.08.2018

Defense Ministry preparing agreement between Ukraine, NATO on trust fund for neutralization of explosive items

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Defense Ministry preparing agreement between Ukraine, NATO on trust fund for neutralization of explosive items

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is preparing to sign an implementation agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and NATO on the implementation of the project of the NATO trust fund for the neutralization of explosive items and countering improvised explosive devices.

"Yesterday, at a government meeting, a decision was made to sign the agreement with the Ukrainian side. And it remains to sign it only with the NATO side," Department of Ecological Safety and Mine Action of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense Maksym Komisarov said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

The draft agreement was previously agreed with the countries of the Alliance, the website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported.

"After signing this document, we will have a trust fund that will help to destroy improvised explosive devices and clean our territory of explosive objects," Komisarov said.

He also said that the Defense Ministry of Ukraine has developed a new version of the draft law of Ukraine "On the peculiarities of state policy in the field of mine action." At present, the document is undergoing legal expertise in the secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, after which it will be handed to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

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