Partnership for Peace

In 1994 Ukraine joined the Partnership for Peace Programme run by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); the country also established a “special partnership” with the organization in 1996. In 1995 Ukraine joined the Council of Europe.

…issues, as well as the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program (1994) to enhance European security and stability through joint military training exercises with NATO and non-NATO states, including the former Soviet republics and allies. Special cooperative links were also set up with two PfP countries: Russia and Ukraine.

…Russian elections—to promote this so-called Partnership for Peace, but he was met with disappointment in Warsaw and Prague and continued intransigence from Moscow. In May 1994 the Russian defense minister, Peter Grachev, insisted that if NATO was bent on expansion it must subordinate itself to the CSCE, an unwieldy organization…