President Viktor Yushchenko, currently on a visit to Lithuania, is sure that Ukraine will ally itself with the NATO Membership Action Plan in December 2008.
President Yushchenko reasons his confidence by the fact that Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration meets both the country's national and common European interests.
All the same, the Head of State thinks that Ukraine is to make a number of steps for the time remained. The matter concerns an active work of mass media, political circles, public initiatives for the Ukrainian citizens to formulate once again their views on the effective model of the national security policy and importance of Ukraine's NATO accession.
The President spoke in favor of moving a common political discussion on the issue in the country to more practical level understandable for every citizen.
At the same time, Viktor Yushchenko sees his mission to increase the number of international partners that will back Ukraine's aspiration to ally itself with the MAP.
Viktor Yushchenko reiterated that Ukraine's NATO membership and political association and economic integration with the EU serve two basic steps that most meet the issue on ensuring stability in the country.
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