Few know it, but NATO has had, for several years, a permanent national representation in Ukraine (NATO Representation in Ukraine, NRU). Having gone through several statuses, this branch of the Atlantic Alliance based in kyiv has long remained a simple liaison office backed by a documentation center. But, since September, she now has a “permanent representative”. An appointment made in the wake of the annual summit of the Atlantic Alliance in Washington, within a package of measures aimed at signaling to Russia that Ukraine is now engaged, according to the terms of the final communiqué, in a process reconciliation “irreversible” with NATO.
Patrick Turner is the new head of this permanent national representation. This Briton, who very rarely speaks in the media, began his career within the Ministry of Defense in the United Kingdom, and has held, in recent years, several important positions within NATO, notably those of deputy secretary general in charge of operations and deputy secretary general in charge of defense plans. The World was able to meet him in kyiv, Thursday December 12, where he is now at the head of an office whose staff has “triple”according to him, during the year, while there were only a few dozen when it was created at the turn of the year 2000.
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