Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine urged the national mass media "not to disseminate the myth of the neutral political status of Ukraine." As Deputy Head of the NATO Department at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Vladislav Yasniuk claimed at a special seminar for journalists on the issues of Atlantic integration, "the Constitution does not contain a word on the neutral status, that is why we are urging the media to refrain from propagating the myth," REGNUM correspondent in Kiev reported on June 9. "We are facing the situation when information about NATO circulated by the media does not conform to the reality," Yasniuk warned. "One of the most popular ones is the myth on Ukraine's neutral political status. There is no neutral status, actually, that is a myth, because the statement on the neutral status is only mentioned once in the official documents, in the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine of 1991. That is the only case when the neutral status is mentioned."
"We are facing the situation when information about NATO circulated by the media does not conform to the reality," Yasniuk warned. "One of the most popular ones is the myth on Ukraine's neutral political status. There is no neutral status, actually, that is a myth, because the statement on the neutral status is only mentioned once in the official documents, in the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine of 1991. That is the only case when the neutral status is mentioned."
