KIEV, Dec. 18 – Ukraine is ready to expand its presence in the global space cooperation with countries with developed space industries, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko has said in an interview with the U.S. Space News.

Commenting on the purpose of negotiations held in late October in the United States with senior U.S. government officials, including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Boyko said: "We need to understand the whole policy of NASA, because America is the leader of space programs and we want to understand what way our space society will go in the future. And we want to understand the place of Ukraine in this."