Ukraine's Constitutional Court has decided to terminate the memorandum on cooperation with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
This decision was taken at the Constitutional Court’s meeting on April 17 and was published on the official Web site of the court on Wednesday.
In this decision, the court said that on March 14 it ruled the March 6 decision of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on holding the Crimean referendum as unconstitutional. Consequently, there were no legal grounds for holding the referendum in the autonomous republic on March 16, and its results cannot be considered as a the grounds for self-determination of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
However, contrary to that decision, the referendum took place and its results were taken as the grounds for the signing of the agreement between the Russian Federation and the so-called Republic of Crimea on March 18, and the inclusion of the autonomous republic into the Russian Federation.
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, having considered the case on the constitutionality of the international treaty on the inclusion of Crimea and Sevastopol in the Russian Federation, ruled that this treaty was constitutional.
“Having given in its ruling the assessment of the constitutionality of a treaty between the Russian Federation and the so-called Republic of Crimea, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has disregarded the principles and the provisions of the memorandum,” the Constitutional Court of Ukraine said.
Taking into account these circumstances, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine decided to terminate the memorandum on cooperation with the Constitutional Court of Russia and requested Chairman of the court Yuri Baulin inform the Russian Constitutional Court of this decision.
