Ukraine's Rada committee initiates renunciation of several agreements with Russia, Belarus

MOSCOW. Aug 15 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation Committee has recommended that the legislative body should terminate a number of treaties with Russia and Belarus, Ukrainian media reported citing the committee's head Alexander Merezhko.

"A meeting of the committee, which recommended that the Verkhovna Rada should terminate a number of treaties with Russia and Belarus, has just taken place," Merezhko said on social media on Tuesday.

The committee has sent a letter to Prime Minister Denis Shmygal demanding that the relevant bills be immediately submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, "so that the parliament could terminate all non-performing agreements in August," member of the committee Irina Gerashchenko was quoted by the media outlets as saying.

Now, there is no exact list of Ukraine's intergovernmental agreements with Russia and Belarus, as "the lists should be provided by the relevant ministries that were preparing the ratification at the time," she said.

Previously, "representatives of the Foreign Ministry said that about 300 agreements between the Ukrainian and Russian governments are still in effect. There are almost 200 of them with the Commonwealth of Independent States, and 100 with Belarus," she also said.