Ukraine's Security Guarantee Treaty must be approved by referendum/OP
Ukraine's Security Guarantee Treaty must be approved by referendum. Even then, approval should be passed in the parliaments.
This was announced by the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak at a briefing, Channel 24 reports. It followed the results of negotiations with the Russian delegation in Istanbul on Tuesday.
As he explained, the implementation of the decision of the security guarantees treaty will follow the following procedure:
- First it will be a referendum, where all citizens of Ukraine will express their position on this treaty and how it should work;
- after that, ratification by the parliaments of the guarantor countries and the parliament of Ukraine will take place.
< p class="bloquote cke-markup">This is the key. That is, we must receive the support of society so that this agreement is really consolidating for us,” said Podolyak.
At the same time, the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, noted that the referendum can only be held in a peaceful time.
Help. One of the articles of the Vienna Convention provides that if an international treaty is concluded under pressure, then it is not valid. The Russian side stated that it recognizes this.
The issue of the occupied Crimea is a separate clause of the agreement
According to Podolyak, the issue of Crimea is a separate clause of the agreement. In it, the Ukrainian side proposes to fix the position of Ukraine and Russia, to hold bilateral negotiations on the status of the temporarily occupied Crimea and Sevastopol for 15 years.
