Oleksandr Turchynov: There is no alternative for Ukraine but for European and Euro-Atlantic integration
24 July 2014, 15:37
There is no alternative for Ukraine but for European and Euro-Atlantic integration. This was announced by Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov in the course of the meeting with leadership of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly where Prime-Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk also participated.
At the course of the meeting, the Parties discussed the issue of threat to the collective security system in the world in connection with Russia's occupation of Crimea and support of international terrorism.
"We treat with great respect the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and we consider our cooperation a guarantee of global security", said Oleksandr Turchynov.
In his words, there is no alternative for Ukraine's European way of development, "however, aggression of the Russian Federation got in our way towards Europe".
The Parties also discussed the issue on providing Ukraine with super-precision weapons and material and technical assistance in the fight against "terrorists supported by Russia".
According to President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly of Hugh Bayley, shooting down of a civil aircraft "Boeing-777" has become a point of no return in the system of global collective security.
In the words of Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Daniel Bacquelaine, "today the agenda includes not the issue of Ukraine's security but the issue of Europe's and the whole civilized world's security".
Moreover, according to Oleksandr Turchynov, collective security system should work, and, thus, "cooperation in the framework of the North-Atlantic Alliance is more important than ever".
"There is no alternative for us to European and Euro-Atlantic integration", summed up the Chair of the Parliament.