The Ukrainian government has terminated the effect of the 1995 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) agreement on arranging works for interstate standardization of weapons and military hardware.
The draft governmental resolution was approved at a government meeting in line with the procedure without discussion on April 17.
The approved document also terminates the effect of the protocol, which was signed in 2001 and introduced changes and supplements to this agreement.
The Economic Development Ministry has worked out a resolution to fulfill the presidential decree dated May 19, 2018, which enforces the May 19, 2018 National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) decision on the termination of the effect of some interstate agreements, which were concluded within the CIS framework, for Ukraine, the explanatory note to the document seen by Interfax said.
The explanatory note indicated that the 1995 CIS agreement on works for interstate standardization of weapons and military hardware has not been virtually implemented in Ukraine. Not a single national state standard for weapons and military hardware has been set as a national standard in the state since 1992. Meanwhile, Ukraine began switching over to international and European standards and NATO documents in the area of standardization of weapons and military hardware.
As reported, reaching the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ full compliance with the Armed Forces of the NATO states by 2020 is formalized in the new Ukrainian Military Doctrine adopted in 2015. The Strategic Defense Bulletin adopted in 2016 also stipulated the plans for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to shift to the NATO standards in the automation segment and create an effective system of operational (combat) control, communications, intelligence, and surveillance in line with the concept of C4ISR operations in the army before 2020. In 2016, the Ukroboronprom state concern announced the plans to fully shift the defense and industrial sector to NATO standards before 2020, and the plans to join the weapon procurement system, which is in effect for the NATO states.
Ukraine ended the exports of military and dual-purpose products to Russia in 2014. The Ukrainian government severed the 1993 intergovernmental agreement with Russia in the area of military-technical cooperation in May 2015.
Between 2015 and 2017, Kyiv denounced five more intergovernmental agreements with Russia that regulated cooperation in the defense and industrial sector and military-technical cooperation.
In 2018, the Verkhovna Rada passed the law, which relieved enterprises of the Ukroboronprom state concern of the obligations under the agreements denounced in the area of military-technical cooperation with Russia.
