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NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Friday, in the joint press conference with Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, that the Alliance will support Ukraine in its reform process and will stay in close touch to guard and guide this process.

NATO spokesman James Appathurai said Wednesday night he doesn’t expect a Membership Action Plan (MAP) offered in Bucharest to Georgia and Ukraine.

U.S. president George W. Bush said Wednesday in Bucharest that NATO should welcome Georgia and Ukraine into the Membership Action Plan at the summit in Bucharest.

The Ukrainian customs on Serpent Island, which is subject to an ongoing protracted litigation between Romania and Ukraine, will be completed by end August, a border patrol official said Tuesday, quoted by Ukrainian agency KrugInform.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree transforming the Serpent Island into a free economic area, official sources in Kiev said Tuesday, quoted by Russian paper Izvestia.

Ukraine’s President Victor Yushchenko said the area of the Bystroye Canal is a sovereign territory where the Ukrainian state is free to unfold a sovereign activity.