President Viktor Yuschenko rules out possibility of Russia's territorial claims to Ukraine.
He has announced this at a joint press conference with Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus in Lithuania.
"I don't' fear this, because it will never happen. There is a Ukrainian nation, an independent state of Ukraine, there is a Ukrainian army, there are forty-seven million Ukrainians and a native land, a native history behind them," said Yuschenko answering the question about whether Russia would encroach on the territorial integrity of Ukraine if it succeeds in encroaching Georgia.
The president underlined, one must not joke with territorial integrity of sovereign states.
"They are fixed. There are corresponding international liabilities and all the parties in the peaceful political process must strictly follow their undertakings," he noted.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Security Service of Ukraine banned Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov from entering Ukraine on May 12 because of a statement he made in Sevastopol on May 11 during the commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the Russian Black Sea naval fleet.
Luzhkov says that Sevastopol never belonged to Ukraine and that he will officially request the State Duma and the Council of the Russian Federation to raise the issue of ownership of Sevastopol again.
Yuschenko equals preserving of political sovereignty of Ukraine with its future membership in NATO.
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