Ukraine quits int'l energy agreements concluded within CIS framework
KYIV. Dec 17 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian government approved a draft resolution on Ukraine's secession from international energy cooperation agreements concluded within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at a meeting on Wednesday.
According to the document, Ukraine withdraws from the Mining Charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States dated March 27, 1997, the Agreement on the Coordination of Interstate Relations of the CIS Member States in the Field of Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy dated May 31, 2013, the Agreement on the Coordination of Interstate Relations of the CIS Member States in the Field of Electric Power dated February 14, 1992, and the Agreement on Basic Principles of Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy dated June 26, 1992.
In addition, Ukraine automatically withdraws from the Protocol on Amendments to the Agreement on the Coordination of Interstate Relations of the CIS Member States in the Field of Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy dated May 31, 2013.
"The legal basis of cooperation with the CIS in the energy area has mostly lost its practical significance and requires a revision from the angle of compliance with the current state of affairs in international relations in this area," the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said in an explanatory note on the government's draft resolution.
According to the ministry, the withdrawal from the CIS energy agreements will not have any negative implications for Ukraine.
The ministry stopped participating in meetings of the CIS Electric Power Council in March 2014. There is no cooperation with the CIS in the fields of atomic energy and electric power.
