KIEV (Sputnik) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday signed a law on the ratification of an agreement with NATO on founding a diplomatic mission in Ukraine, the president’s press service said.
“President Petro Poroshenko signed the law ‘On Ratifying the Agreement Between the Government of Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the Status of NATO Representation in Ukraine.’ The said agreement foresees the founding of a NATO representation office in Ukraine that will consist of a NATO Communications Office and a NATO Center for Information and Documentation. The new diplomatic organ and its personnel will receive privileges, immunity, and cooperation given to diplomatic missions in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961,” the presidential site reads.