Ukraine could lose part of sovereignty accepting Moscow’s proposal on …
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Kyiv is facing a dilemma: to delimitate maritime areas and the Kerch Strait at any cost, even violating the law and losing part of sovereignty, or firmly defend its position complying with the international law and the Constitution of Ukraine, according to an article in the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Ukraine weekly.
The observer of the international policy department, Volodymyr Kravchenko, in the article “The boundary at what cost?” wrote about the details of the Russian option of delimitating maritime areas, which Moscow sent to Kyiv at the end of 2011.
“So, the border will cross not the Kerch-Yenikalsky Channel, as previously Moscow insisted, it will remain Ukrainian. But our north-eastern neighbors propose to delimitate the Kerch Strait so that part of the channel in the Azov and Black Seas would go to the Russian territory,” reads the article.
In addition, according to the author, Russian diplomats propose to shift the way out of the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov towards Ukraine.
“Finally, a joint company for the use of the Kerch-Yenikalsky Channel should be established. Russian diplomats defend the position that the creation of a joint corporation and the signing of a delimitation agreement should be made simultaneously. Kyiv is against this approach. It supports the idea of formalizing the boundaries first and then creating a joint venture,” the weekly reads.
08.09.2012
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