At the initiative of Ukraine, the aggressor state and its satellite were deprived of the status of observers in a multilateral agreement that enshrined the main principles of international cooperation in the energy sector.
At a special session of the Energy Charter Conference in Brussels, Russia and Belarus were deprived of observer status in an international energy organization that unites 60 countries, in particular the European Union.
This is reported by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.
The report says that after the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, representatives of the ministry repeatedly took the initiative to deprive Russia of the observer status in the Energy Charter, as well as to suspend the provisional application of the Treaty to the Energy th Charter for Belarus.
This decision was made. “An aggressor state that violates international agreements, despises the rights of other states and peoples, and, like its satellite, deserves international isolation, including in energy communities and organizations,” Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko commented.
The Energy Charter Treaty establishes the basic principles of cooperation, in particular in the field of protection of foreign investments, establishes transit rules in energy systems and mechanisms for resolving disputes between contracting parties, investors and host states.
Russia and Belarus signed the Treaty on Energy Charter, but never ratified it. At the same time, Belarus applied the Treaty provisionally.
Recall that earlier the State Duma of Russia approved a draft law on the withdrawal of the country from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.
