Ukraine starts discussing security agreement with Ireland

The representatives of Ukraine and Ireland have held negotiations in order to sign a bilateral security agreement and develop bilateral cooperation.

Source: the Office of the President of Ukraine on 2 August, as reported by European Pravda

The Ukrainian negotiations group was led by Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office.

The two sides "discussed the content of the bilateral agreement, exchanged views on specific provisions and agreed on further steps".

Even though Ukraine’s President’s Office does not specify what the main points of the bilateral agreement is, it states that the negotiations were held after an agreement was reached between Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, and Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris during their meeting.

Zelenskyy had stated that he reached an agreement to "enhance the work on a bilateral security agreement" and scheduled a visit of the Irish Taoiseach to the city of Kyiv for its signing.

Earlier Zelenskyy also announced the start of negotiations concerning a new security agreement.

As of today Ukraine has signed 25 such bilateral documents, as well as the Ukraine Compact, a multilateral document which contains commitments to support Ukraine.

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