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Ukraine's Foreign Policy: Bitter Agreement

October 15, 2007
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Three leading Ukrainian foreign policy practitioners engaged in a spirited debate over the future of the country's foreign policy.

Borys Tarasyuk (Our Ukraine Bloc), a two-time former foreign minister, outlined an ambitious series of goals that he vowed would be achieved by the new “Orange” government as long as political opponents would not try and "distort" the election results.

Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, who was foreign minister under President Kuchma, insisted that a broad government coalition which included the Party of Regions was necessary to pursue a pragmatic foreign policy accepted by all Ukrainians.

Hryhoriy Nemyria, foreign policy advisor to Yulia Tymoshenko – Ukraine’s likely future prime minister agreed that all major parties substantially agree on strategic foreign policy goals but that an Orange government would pursue integration into both the EU and NATO more forcefully. ”

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