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NATO's Secretary General Javier Solana (right) and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Hennady Vdovenko shake hands after initialing a charter designed to tighten political and military links between the alliance and Ukraine Thursday May 29 1997 in Sintra, outside Lisbon. An agreement, similar to that just signed with Russia, should be signed by Ukraine's during the NATO summit in Madrid next July. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)