Ukraine hopes to ink security pact with Japan before July NATO summit

Ukraine hopes to sign a security cooperation agreement with Japan sometime before a NATO summit meeting in July, a senior diplomat of the eastern European country said recently.Aiming to bolster ties with countries in the Indo-Pacific region more than two years after the start of Russia's invasion, Ukraine and Japan are in the "final stage" of talks on a bilateral security pact, First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said."We hope to hold one more round of negotiations so that we sign the agreement in the short term" before the three-day NATO summit begins in Washington on July 9, Sybi…READ FULL ARTICLE