Domestic & foreign policy of Ukraine

According to the decree "The main directions of the external policy of Ukraine" the basic demand applied to the accomplishment of external policy of Ukraine is protection of country's national interests.

The priority is an activity within OSCE with the help of which Ukraine will avail itself of making a step towards Western countries. Ukraine will also take an advantage of OSCE gears to support its national interests.

Ukraine as a sea state is going to cooperate within the Danube commission and the Black sea economic community. Contacts with Vyshegrad states group, Carpathean euroregion, North Council and Baltic states council are also of a great importance for Ukraine.

Ukraine does and will do its best to avoid institutionalizing of the state cooperation forms which could have transformed CIS in the abovestate structure of the federative or confederate origin.

Ukraine’s independence was declared on August 24, 1991. Upon declaring itself independent of the SU, Ukraine embarked on a series of economic and social reforms. While nationalistic movements and cultural enthusiasm had smoothed the transition from the old Soviet to the new democratic model – the economic situation worsened and thus economy become the centerpiece of the internal policy of our country and to some extent dominates it even today.

The economy of Ukraine suffered a sharp drop in production and inflation. The damage was due in part to the country’s uncomfortable dependence on imports from Russia (in gas and oil), which was undergoing tumultuous changes.