Our Country is interested in entering of a common missile defense system of NATO, Anatoly Hrytsenko noted, the head of the Ukrainian parliamentary committee on national security and defense.

"We are interested in taking part in the formation of a joint missile defense system and developing our technologies and creating new jobs through this. To my mind, we have more reasons for direct collaboration [with NATO] than many of the two scores of Euro-Atlantic partners," Hrytsenko reported to journalists following a meeting between a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Kyiv on Thursday.

The forming of a common European missile defense system was discussed in detail at the meeting, he added.

The parliamentarians insisted that Ukraine, which has been developing partnership with NATO for quite a long time and participating in all of its operations, deserves more than just being listed among "other European partners," he added.

The alliance is primarily collaborating with Russia now in building a common European missile defense, Hrytsenko added.

He also noted he had noted at the meeting that Ukraine should be more active in developing defense industry cooperation with the NATO countries.

"Since 1994, collaboration under Partnership For Peace has not ended up in a single example of convincing success in collaboration between the Ukrainian and NATO defense industries," Hrytsenko said.