There is no silence after yesterday's interrupted deliberations of the Ukrainian ultimate Council. Before the meeting, Members received a 58-page document, a draft agreement concerning American-Ukrainian cooperation on the extraction of natural deposits.
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It turned out that the paper that politicians were going to vote on, contains a number of records which have not been consulted previously during talks between diplomats from Washington and Kiev.
US-Ukraine Agreement. Members outraged by the American document
The draft agreement almost immediately became subject to strong criticism from representatives of all major Ukrainian political parties. Records that appear in the document they are rejected even by MPs from the organization of president Volodymyr Zelenski.
Among another things, the president of the Committee on abroad Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation of the ultimate Council of Ukraine does not hide his outrage, lawyer Alexander Merezhko. During the press briefing, a typical of the organization Servant of the Nation stated that a paper in this form is absolutely unacceptable..
– It seems that it is not a fake, due to the fact that the paper is made in the kind of American law (...) If this is truly a serious proposal for American diplomacy, this is where they come in. serious problems with this paper being, to put it mildly, absurd He stressed.
Merezhko besides argued that from the point of view of global law, the paper has no value. It contains a number of provisions which are incompatible with the laws in force in Ukraine, including the Constitution.
– Now, unexpectedly, the text of a contract was proposed, which is not an global agreement and is not compatible with Ukrainian lawbecause it is written from the point of view of American law. This is unacceptable.. We request a serious approach due to the fact that we are talking about Ukraine's resources, its wealth and the future. The solution to this by means of a contract on the 1 hand is absurd – he concluded.
Agreement to extract Ukrainian deposits. "This is the working version"
The agreement presented to the advanced Council Members became the subject of a heated debate in the Parliamentary Chamber. During the current session Ms Syrydenko answered the questions of Members.
The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy confirmed that the task received by parliamentarians was a version sent by the authorities in the White House. At the same time, she called on Members to refraining from media criticism of the document.
– As for the agreement with the US, we have received the text of the agreement, and we are presently working on it. It's a working version.which in rule reflects the position of US legal advisers. We are formulating our position – she argued.
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