Stronger NATO: Ukraine’s Take

By Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze was appointed Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration on April 14, 2016. Prior to her appointment, she worked as First Deputy of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Foreign Affairs, and headed its Permanent Delegation in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. She also led Yalta European Strategy, worked as Director of the charity Open Ukraine Foundation, and spent five years as a correspondent with BBC Ukraine in Washington and the Caucasus. Ivanna studied at the State University of Montana and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. She later received a Master's in International Relations from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

In 2014, Russia illegally annexed Crimea, six years after the NATO summit in Bucharest – where members signaled that Ukraine and Georgia should be made NATO allies in the future – and immediately following then Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych’s ouster, stemming from public upheaval over Yanukovych’s refusal to sign an association agreement that would draw Ukraine closer to the European Union. Today, Ukraine still seeks NATO membership. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, tells The Cipher Brief that progress is being made and that the U.S. is helping prep Ukraine for full NATO membership.

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