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The policy paper wаs prepared within the framework of the project “Ukraine in NATO Missile Defence System: Pro et Contra” implemented by the Institute of World Policy along with Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies with the support of the NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine.The policy paper “Ukraine in NATO missile defence system: pro et contra” is based on exclusive comments taken from Ukrainian and foreign politicians, military-technical experts, and diplomats. Within the framework of the project (over July-September 2011) IWP experts interviewed and consulted a large number of the representatives of the Ukrainian governmental institutions: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the State Space Agency of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine, and foreign diplomatic missions. Also the two focus-groups, in which the leading experts on missile defence issues from Ukraine and NATO member-states took part, were held. In September 2011 the videoconference Kyiv-Moscow was organized to encourage an opinion exchange between the Ukrainian and Russian security expert communities.

The full text of the paper in Ukrainian and English is here.