Ukraine has terminated international agreements with Russia, Belarus and the CIS

On March 25, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine terminated the validity of 116 international agreements concluded with Russia, Belarus, and within the framework of the CIS.

This was announced by Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiga.

According to him, the government has terminated 25 agreements, denounced three, and withdrawn from 88 treaties. Among them, five relate to the Russian Federation, 23 to Belarus, and 87 to the CIS. One trilateral treaty between Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus has also been terminated.

“Ukraine’s treaty and legal framework must correspond to the realities of war and the new security architecture on the European continent,” Sybiga emphasized.

He added that after the president’s decrees on withdrawal from 31 CIS treaties and 14 bills in the Verkhovna Rada on the termination of 74 agreements, the main stage of bringing the treaty framework into line with the war is actually completed.

“This is my principled position as a minister – to get rid of everything that could 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 of the free world on the eastern border of Ukraine, and better – even further beyond it,” Sybiga added.

Ukraine formally remained a party to a number of intergovernmental treaties after withdrawing from the statutory bodies of the CIS in 2018, but the government and parliament gradually denounced these agreements.

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