NATO urges Ukraine to set up three radar complexes for control of Russia's air space, Itar-Tass reports. Brussels "is ready to finance this project for creating a common radar field for controlling the air traffic", the Ukrainian newspaper Delo said on Friday, citing a military expert, Colonel Alexander Manachinsky.
He said that "representatives of NATO ask to install the radar stations in one of regions in eastern Ukraine and near Kiev and Borispol. For this reason a real goal of the alliance can be judged - controlling the air space of Russia", Manachinsky said.
If the radar stations are deployed, they will be able to monitor a major part of Russia's territory. Manachinsky asserted that such complexes had been set up in the Baltic republics and Poland.
The director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine, Michel Duray, said that NATO would spend about 10 million euros in Ukraine in 2006. Of these funds, 5.8 million euros are slated for the scrapping of munitions, 700,000 euros for the "social retraining of military servicemen" and 800,000 euros for the retraining of personnel of the Defense Ministry and the Security Service.
Ukraine President to reform security services soon
Reform of the security services of Ukraine will be soon discussed by the country's National Security Council, presidential press service quoted Viktor Yushchenko as saying Thursday. Speaking in the Interior Ministry, President Yushchenko said: "Issues related to reform of the law-enforcement system will be discussed at a council meeting in the near future, as this sphere is an integral part of the country's national security". Yushchenko tasked the ministry with drafting related bills to be submitted to parliament and be considered as an urgent priority. The president also gave the ministry 10 days to prepare proposals on the matter and pass them to him, local media reported.
Source: AXIS
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