Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, left, and President Viktor Yushchenko
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Ukraine to Spend $6m for NATO Promotion
Ukraine will spend roughly $6 million in the following three years to promote membership in NATO. The respective document was approved by the cabinet of Viktor Yanukovich.
The state program for informing the nation about integration into the NATO will be in force in 2008 through 2011. The State TV and Radio Broadcasting Committee is to submit the actual program to the government by December 1, 2007.
The previous program that took effect in 2004 to last through 2007 cost $1 million to Ukraine. During the period, the nation was to be brought up to date in respect of NATO’s transformation, peaceful efforts of this organization and consequences of NATO membership.
According to the better part of Ukrainian policymakers, the country should joint NATO and EU in future. The polls, however, signal that only 30.9 percent in Ukraine support the idea of NATO’s membership and no more than 24.2 percent of them would vote for it during the referendum.
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