標題: Ukraine offers West radar warning
Ukraine has said it is ready to make its missile early warning systems
available to European nations following Russia's conflict with Georgia.
The foreign ministry said Moscow's abrogation earlier this year of an accord
involving two tracking stations allowed it to co-operate with others.
President Viktor Yushchenko said his country could ensure its sovereignty
only through collective security.
Last week, Kiev limited the freedom of movement of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
The move came after several of the fleet's warships, based at Sevastopol in
Ukraine's Crimea's peninsula, were deployed along the Georgian coastline.
Moscow denounced the restrictions as anti-Russian and said its military
commanders would answer only to the Russian president.
'Unprecedented situation'
In a statement, Ukraine's foreign ministry said that because the country was
no longer party to the 1992 agreement with Russia on the use of its radar
stations, it could now "launch active co-operation with European nations".
This might include "the integration of Ukrainian elements of missile early
warning and space control systems with those of foreign countries that are
interested in gathering space data", it said.
Earlier this week, President Yushchenko issued a decree putting an end to
Ukraine's participation in the accord in view of Russia's abrogation of it.
He said the situation was unprecedented and showed that his country could
only ensure its national sovereignty through collective security.
Only that, he said, "could prevent any actions like those which occurred on
7-8 August at first in South Ossetia, and then in other regions of Georgia".
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says the decision is evidence
Ukraine is now more desperate to embrace the West as its fear of Russia
intensifies and Moscow seemingly becomes more determined to prevent any
neighbouring states from joining Nato.
Russia clearly sees Nato as America's sphere of influence, despite US
President George W Bush's insistence that it is a purely defensive alliance
of sovereign democracies, our correspondent says.
Increasingly, the events of the past 10 days demonstrate Russia has gone back
to arm-wrestling with its neighbours and the West after the immediate
post-Soviet years, when it felt too weak, he adds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7566070.stm
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