Ukraine rips up key cooperation deals with Russia

2015/5/22 12:06:18

<Photo: A Transdniester police officer looks across the border into Ukraine at the Kuchurgan-Pervomaysk crossing on April 15, 2014

 


From Yahoo News, May 21, 2015:

 

By Dmitry Zaks

 

Kyiv (AFP) - Kyiv lawmakers on Thursday annulled five crucial security agreements with Moscow that had allowed Russia to transport troops to a separatist region of Moldova and purchase weapons that are only produced in Ukraine.

 

The deals were suspended when Kyiv accused the Kremlin of fomenting a pro-Russian revolt in Ukraine's industrial east 13 months ago that has killed 6,250 and left the ex-Soviet state's economy in ruins.

 

But Thursday's decision means that legislative support from Ukraine's dominant nationalist and pro-European parties would be required before such cooperation could resume once the separatist conflict is resolved.

 

It also underscores how little a truce deal reached in February has done to rebuild trust between Moscow and Kyiv.

 

I know of no other country that continues to be friends with a neighbour that kills your people, prominent pro-EU deputy Mustafa Nayyem wrote on Facebook.

 

And only recently I learned that we still have international agreements with Russia concerning military and technological cooperation!

 

The five laws include a strategic agreement allowing Moscow to send peacekeeping forces across Ukraine to Moldova's Russian-speaking Transdniester region.

 

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