KYIV. May 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) - No final decision on Ukraine's military contribution to the international stabilization forces in Iraq has been made.
The Ukrainian defense minister's press secretary Konstantin Khyvrenko said the Supreme Council's authorization is required to send servicemen to Iraq. "That is why any talk about dispatching extra units to other countries, except for those where Ukrainian contingents are already serving, would be premature," he said.
According to foreign media reports, under a plan adopted at the anti-Iraqi coalition's conference in London, Ukrainian servicemen are expected to be sent to one of the military sectors into which Iraq will be divided. Britain and Poland are expected lead the stabilization operation in Iraq.
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski told journalists that his country is currently negotiating Ukraine's role in the stabilization forces.
No comment from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was immediately available.