On April 7, Queen met with the People’s Deputy from the Servant of the People faction, Maryana Bezugla.
“We are grateful for the work she leads on the bill on the Security Service of Ukraine. Reforming the service in accordance with Euro-Atlantic principles and best practices is a key step on Ukraine’s path to NATO,” Queen said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on April 6, said that Ukraine’s accession to the Alliance is the only way to end the war in Donbass… According to the head of state, providing Kiev with an action plan for NATO membership would be “a real signal for the Russian Federation.”
Ukraine stepped up cooperation with NATO in 2014 against the background of the occupation of Crimea by Russia and the armed conflict in Donbass. At the end of 2014, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law that provides for the refusal of Ukraine from the policy of “non-aligned”… In accordance with the Military Doctrine of Ukraine, adopted in 2015, deepening cooperation with NATO is a priority.
On February 7, 2019, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a law on amending the Constitution provisions on the strategic course of the state for the acquisition of full membership of Ukraine in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Law entered effective February 21.
In 2018, NATO recognized Ukraine postgraduate country status – candidate for membership in the Alliance, in 2020 Ukraine received the status of an advanced partner.
- Reform of the SBU is one of the main reforms, which needs to be held by the new government of Ukraine, said at the end of July 2019, the European Union Ambassador Hugh Mingarelli, who was completing his mission in Ukraine.
- On July 29, then Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Danilyuk stated that Zelensky’s team prepares a package of bills that should reform the SBU.
- On October 15, the head of the SBU, Ivan Bakanov, submitted a draft law to Zelensky. On October 21, the then Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Dmitry Kuleba said that the document had been submitted for NATO analysis, the agency reported. UNN.
- Bill №3196 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on March 10, 2020, Zelensky designated it as urgent. After revision by the committee, it was re-registered in the new edition in October 2020 as No. 3196-d.
- how reported press service of the SBU, the document provides for a number of changes in the work of the department, including demilitarization, rejection of “functions unusual for special state bodies”, optimization of the staff and the introduction of a flexible structure of the SBU. It is also proposed to expand the vector of counterintelligence work and improve cooperation with the intelligence services of other countries.
- Bakanov said in November that the reform of the Security Service of Ukraine provides for the reorientation of its functions, in the first place – to protect the “critical infrastructure”; the preservation of the “economic functions” of the SBU is not provided.
- January 28 Rada adopted in first reading draft law on SBU reform.
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