Polish President Lech Kaczynski declared on Friday that Poland supported the inclusion of Ukraine in the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).
"Within the coming two weeks before the NATO summit in Bucharest (on April 2-4), we will undertake concrete actions in this respect," Kaczynski told a joint press conference after his talks with visiting Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko.
Kaczynski said he would "take appropriate measures" in favor of Ukraine's European prospects.
Poland will also support Ukraine in trying to join the European Union "but here we have more time," Polish news agency PAP quoted the Polish president as saying.
Meanwhile, Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk, at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, said Friday he would unveil concrete proposals during the next EU summit in Brussels in June drawing Ukraine closer to the EU.
"It is important that Poland -- already a NATO and EU member --can forge ahead on the path Ukraine wants to take," Yushchenko said.
Yushchenko said Poland had "an extraordinary mission" in supporting efforts to include Ukraine in the MAP. He also declared that joining NATO was Ukraine's sovereign decision and would be preceded by a national referendum.
The two presidents also covered such topics as the Odessa-Brody-Gdansk oil pipeline and the energy summit in Kiev. Kaczynski said after the meeting that "things stand very well in this respect."
Yushchenko referred to problems that emerged at the Polish-Ukrainian border after Poland joined the Schengen Treaty last year and said that a great progress had been made since then.
The Ukrainian president stressed the very good and strategic relations between the two states and described Lech Kaczynski as "Ukraine's friend."
Source: Xinhua
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