MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax-AVN) - Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Chairman Yevhen Marchuk confirmed that Ukraine adheres to the new concept of interaction with NATO.
Ukraine is now entering a new, more dynamic stage of integration in NATO and intends to join NATO in the future, Marchuk said at the international forum devoted to pressing international security issues, which opened in Moscow on Wednesday.
"This should be interpreted as an important factor for strengthening international cooperation," he said.
"There are not any interaction mechanisms in the former USSR that would be more effective," he said. At the same time, all of the CIS states are working together with NATO under the Partnership for Peace program," Marchuk said.
Marchuk believes that NATO is an important component of global security structure.
"It is necessary to abandon the standards, logic and psychology of the Cold War. It is necessary to look for different and versatile approaches to the security issue," he told reporters at the forum.
The tension on the borders of NATO and Collective Security Treaty countries has now been lowered, he said. "Threats do not emerge at the blocs' borders, as before. The mechanisms are totally different now," he said.
Marchuk believes that global security depends on how fast the two blocs can unite their efforts.