The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Foreign Affairs Committee has advised the parliament to pass a draft resolution terminating Ukrainian membership and involvement in bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
“Committee members have analyzed a draft resolution terminating the Ukrainian membership and involvement in bodies the Commonwealth of Independent States (No. 1015) and decided to advise the Verkhovna Rada to support the aforementioned draft with due account of the amendments and additions proposed by the committee,” the Verkhovna Rada administration’s information department said on Dec.17.
In the opinion of the committee, the draft will protect Ukrainian national interests and strengthen its international authority of a state engaged exclusively in effective international cooperation projects advantageous for it.
A way to do so is to stop Ukraine’s membership and involvement in bodies of the international organization “which fails to fulfill its mission and has discredited itself by offering no reaction to the flagrant violations of the agreement by its co-founder, the Russian Federation,” the committee said.
Acting Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Andriy Parubiy said in March 2014 that the NSDC had decided to initiate Ukrainian secession from the CIS.
