Ukraine breaks internal security cooperation agreement with Belarus

Kyiv, August 12 – The Sudebno-Yuridicheskaya Gazeta newspaper confirmed today that the Ukrainian Ministerial Cabinet has violated the cooperation agreement between the Ministry of the Interior and the Belarusian Ministry of the Interior, in a clause dated August 9.

“Due to a radical change in circumstances, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine orders: to suspend the validity of the cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and Belarus, concluded on March 6, 1992 in Chernigov,” indicates a document by the media devoted to judicial and legal issues.

The signed agreement states that the internal entities of Kyiv and Minsk assisted each other in combating crime, ensuring public order, implementing judicial rulings and searching for missing persons, as well as in developing scientific links. technology and information, among other things.

The Government of President Vladimir Zalensky instructed the Chancellery to notify the Belarusian side of the termination of the validity of the relevant agreement from the date of receipt of the notification.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers also announced a breach of the agreements on industrial and scientific-technical cooperation between companies and organizations with military branches, signed with Belarus on June 25, 2001 in Kyiv.

Relations between Minsk and Kaif deteriorated in 2020, when Zelensky did not attend the planned forum of the regions of the two countries in Belarus.

Ukraine is one of the Western countries, which the Belarusian authorities accuse of interfering in its internal affairs and organizing protests that began after the presidential elections.

After the start of the Russian military operation on Ukrainian soil on February 24, Kyiv called on its Western allies to impose sanctions on Moscow and Minsk, in order to weaken the economies and force the Kremlin to end the offensive aimed, according to President Vladimir. Putin, the disarmament and disarmament of Ukraine. (Text and image: PL)