Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The new Charter from the United States is key to systemically countering Russian aggression

Interviewer: Two months ago, Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden issued a joint statement on the strategic partnership between Ukraine and the United States, which stated that the updated Charter should fix the enhanced status of such partnership between our countries. Could you please explain the status of the document you signed with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken? Is it more of a symbolic or practical nature? Is it a memorandum of intent or an action plan?

Kuleba: This is neither a memorandum of intent nor an action plan, this is a long-term strategy for the development of relations between Ukraine and the United States for the next ten years….

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The signing of the new Charter with the United States is a top state-level decision. Kyiv and Washington have laid down in an official state document: this is where we are going, and in the next ten years this course won’t see any changes. No matter who’s at the helm of our countries, no matter what happens across the world, the “aircraft carrier” of the Ukraine-U.S. strategic partnership will sail along a designated route.

I would like to emphasize that such major, long-term agreements are key to countering Russian aggression.

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The United States remains our No.1 strategic partner in security, countering Russian aggression and the Kremlin’s imperial ambitions.