Petro Poroshenko signed the Law On the Termination of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership with Russia on December, 10, TASS reports. Several days ago the deputies of Verkhovna Rada voted for this decision.With all formalities observed the treaty to be terminated on April 1.
Ukrainian leader called the law "part of our strategy towards fully breaking with the colonial past and reorientation towards Europe." According to Poroshenko, the same strategy includes visa-free regime, the creation of the Autocephalous Ukrainian church, withdrawal from the CIS, consolidation and many other deeds.
Apart of that, Poroshenko demanded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to complete the inventory of the legal framework with Russia and liquidate other agreements.
Russkiy Mir reported earlier that Kiev have announced the decision to abandon the Treaty on Friendship in September. Ukrainian authorities also intend to terminate about 40 different treaties with Russia. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin, Kiev wants to do it unilaterally. By today almost 50 agreements with Moscow have already been “killed”, the minister added. Klimkin is convinced that this process could go faster but the government should act with caution as the abandonment of some treaties could have negative effects on Ukrainian citizens.
The Foreign Ministry reviews the entire database of documents relating to relations with Russia. All agreements signed before 2014 no longer makes sense today, the minister thinks. The number of treaties between Moscow and Kiev totals almost 400 documents. Some of them were suspended when the conflict in the Donbass started and the Crimea became a part of Russia. Klimkin thinks that Kiev does not need diplomatic relations with Moscow. They would certainly have been terminated if not for millions of Ukrainians at the territory of Russia. The number of border crossings between the two states increases all the time.
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