Bronislav Komarovskyi Alexander Kuzmuk

Polish Minister of Defense Bronislav Komarovskyi (third right) and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Alexander Kuzmuk (first, right) greet the folk group in front of the Livadyiskyi Palace (Yalta, the Crimea) on Monday, January 22, 2001. On the very same day the ministers signed the conceptual agreement on the planning the military cooperation between the two states for 2001. The basic points of cooperation are exchange the experience of the Army reformation and perfection the standard-legal base, the further KFOR Ukrainian-Polish battalion activity, provision of the further constant participant of the Ukrainian Army sub-divisions in the training "Shield of the World", "Konkordia" "Klenovaya Arka" and "Cossack Step". After the observance of the exposition, dedicated to the Yalta trilateral conference of Anti-Hitler Coalition States, which took place in the Livadyiskyi Palace in February of 1945, Bronislav Komarovskyi marked that Poland considered the Yalta conference to be capitulation of Western Democracy before the Soviet totalitarianism. Andrey Kanishchev/ UNIAN