Few know that after UK and Poland, Ukraine has the biggest committment with 1600 peacekeepers.
Even if Kuchma-Yanukovich-Ryadchenko promise 10,000 we need to dump these gangsters.
KUCHMA TELLS RUMSFELD UKRAINE'S STANCE ON EU,
NATO, US TIES REMAIN UNCHANGED
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 13 Aug 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Aug 13, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] [Ukrainian] President [Leonid] Kuchma has confirmed that the country's course towards European and Euro- Atlantic integration and its position on strategic partnership with the USA remain unchanged. He promised this to [visiting] US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Crimea. Rumsfeld met with Ukrainian Defence Minister [Yevhen] Marchuk.
[Passage omitted: Rumsfeld outlines "two compulsory components" for security in Iraq.] The two ministers agreed that the length of the Ukrainian peacekeepers' deployment in Iraq depended on the situation in that country. [Marchuk] To a significant extend - I have already spoken about this - [this] will depend on how quickly the Iraqi security forces are able to take the situation in their country under control.
Few know that after UK and Poland, Ukraine has the biggest committment with 1600 peacekeepers.
Even if Kuchma-Yanukovich-Ryadchenko promise 10,000 we need to dump these gangsters.