The Partnership for Peace (PfP) is a program of practical bilateral cooperation between individual partner countries and NATO, through which these countries can develop individual relations with NATO, independently determining their own priorities for cooperation.
States participating in the Partnership for Peace Program (Partner States):
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Finland
Macedonia
Georgia
Ireland
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Serbia
Sweden
Switzerland
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Participation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Partnership for Peace Program
On February 8, 1994, Ukraine signed the Partnership for Peace (PfP) Framework Document, and on May 25 of the same year, it handed over its Presentation Document to NATO leadership. It defined the political goals of Ukraine's participation in the PfP program, the measures to be taken to achieve these goals, and the forces and means to be allocated by Ukraine to participate in the PfP program.
On May 6, 1996, on behalf of the Government of Ukraine, the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and Other States Participating in the ASP Program on the Status of their Armed Forces and the Additional Protocol to this Agreement were signed (ratified by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on March 2, 2000).
On July 9, 1997, at the NATO Summit in Madrid, the President of Ukraine signed the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership between Ukraine and NATO, which sets out the political commitments of the parties at the highest level and regulates the content of the “distinctive partnership” between Ukraine and NATO.