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2008 Bucharest summit

At the NATO summit 2008 (3 April 2008) NATO decided it will not yet offer membership to Georgia or Ukraine.[29]

2008 Bucharest summit aftermath

In November 2008 Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime-Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Ukrainian minister of defence Anatolii Hrytsenko doubted Ukraine would be granted membership of MAP in December 2008.[30] In a The Times interview late November President Yushchenko stated : "Ukraine has done everything it had to do. We are devoted to this pace. Everything else is an issue of political will of those allies who represent NATO."[31] Although NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary-General Aurelia Bouchez [32] and NATO's Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer[33] still supported Ukraine's NATO bid at the time the Bush administration seemed not to push for Georgian and Ukrainian membership of MAP late November 2008.[34] President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev responded that "reason has prevailed".[35]

On December 3, 2008 NATO decided it will work out an Annual National Programme of providing assistance to Ukraine to implement reforms required to accede the alliance without referring to MAP.[3] Foreign Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko intrepertated this as a de facto obtaining of the NATO Membership Action Plan.[36] On February 18, 2009 the Ukrainian Parliament approved by 239 votes (only 226 votes were required for their approval) the creation of a NATO information and documentation center in Ukraine and the appointment of NATO communications officers in Ukraine[37].

Several NATO member states have provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine during the 2009 flu pandemic in Ukraine in response to a appeal by the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre.[38]

NATO-Ukraine consultations at the level of Defense Ministers took place at NATO headquarters in Brussels on November 16, 2009.[39][40]

Yanukovych Presidency

Candidate during the 2010 presidential election and Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych stated during 2010 presidential election-campaign that the current level of Ukraine's cooperation with NATO was sufficient and that the question of the country's accession to the alliance was therefore not urgent.[41]

Following the election, newly elected Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych stated on February 14, 2010 that Ukraine's relations with NATO were currently "well-defined", and that there was "no question of Ukraine joining NATO". He said the issue of Ukrainian membership of NATO might "emerge at some point, but we will not see it in the immediate future."[5]

On March 1, 2010 during his visit to Brussels, Yanukovych stated that there would be no change to Ukraine's status as a member of the alliance's outreach program.[42] He later reiterated during a trip to Moscow that Ukraine would remain a "European, non-aligned state."[43]

(As of may 2010) NATO and Ukraine continue to cooperate in the frame of the Annual National Program[44], including joint exercises.[45]. According to Ukraine the continuation of Ukraine-NATO cooperation does not exclude the development of a strategic partnership with Russia.[46]

On May 27, 2010 Yanukovych stated he Ukraine considered Ukraine's relations with NATO as a partnership, "And Ukraine can't live without this [partnership], because Ukraine is a large country".[7]

On June 3, 2010 the Ukrainian parliament excluded, with 226 votes, the goal of "integration into Euro-Atlantic security and NATO membership" from the country's national security strategy in a bill drafted by President Yanukovych himself.[6] The bill forbids Ukraine's membership of any military bloc, but allows for co-operation with alliances such as NATO.[47] "European integration" is still part of Ukraine's national security strategy.[6]

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