The Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to "cut off everything that once connected us with the aggressor state."
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has decided to terminate 116 international treaties previously concluded with the governments of Russia, Belarus, and within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This was announced by Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga.
As the minister noted, at the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government has terminated 25 agreements, denounced three, and exited 88 international treaties.
Of the total number of terminated documents, five concern the Russian Federation, 23 relate to Belarus, and 87 were concluded within the framework of the CIS. The action of one trilateral treaty between Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus has also been suspended.
In this context, Sibiga emphasized that Ukraine's legal framework must correspond to the realities of war and the new security architecture on the European continent.
According to the Foreign Minister, considering the recent presidential decrees on exiting 31 treaties within the CIS and 14 bills registered in the Verkhovna Rada on terminating 74 treaties, the main stage of aligning Ukraine's treaty base with the realities of war is effectively coming to an end.
"This is my principled position as a minister – to rid ourselves of everything that can weaken Ukraine, to cut off everything that once connected us with the aggressor state, to build a serious, strategic, and long-term line of defense for the free world on Ukraine's eastern border, or better yet – even further beyond it," he noted.
Ukraine ceased its participation in the statutory bodies of the CIS back in 2018, but formally remained a party to a number of intergovernmental treaties.
Since then, the government and parliament have begun a gradual process of denouncing these agreements.
It is also known that against the backdrop of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Moldova has begun a gradual exit from the CIS and has denounced dozens of agreements signed within the organization over the past years.
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