On September 3, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the decree prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "On submission to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the draft Law of Ukraine "On Termination, Withdrawal and Denunciation of International Treaties of Ukraine concluded by the Government of Ukraine with the Governments of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States".
Onward the relevant draft law will be submitted for consideration to the Parliament. It provides for termination, withdrawal and denunciation of 14 international agreements of Ukraine - five with Russia, four with Belarus, as well as five agreements concluded within the framework of the CIS - in the military, energy, financial, economic, transport, social and medical spheres.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues systematic work to terminate all international legal ties with the aggressor state and its satellites. Of course, practical cooperation with Russia and Belarus ceased long ago. But it is also important to legally disconnect these hundreds of wires by which our state was connected to Moscow and the CIS countries. This is a long and systematic work, which we are now accelerating by introducing relevant solutions in packages. We count on the support of people's deputies of another step in this direction", - emphasized the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba.