In Ukraine, the Kyiv Security Treaty containing recommendations for international security guarantees for Ukraine was presented. It was developed on behalf of President Vladimir Zelensky. In particular, the document provides for the retention of guarantor states from the abolition of sanctions against the Russian Federation to the cessation of aggression against Ukraine and compensation for all losses.
The agreement was presented by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrei Ermak and the former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen.
In the recommendations, they call for the creation of a Kyiv security agreement – a joint document on strategic partnership, which will unite Ukraine and guarantees. A multi -level approach to guarantees is assumed: the main group of allies should take on clear obligations to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a wider group will provide non -unit guarantees built around the sanctions mechanisms.
Guarantors should refrain from canceling sanctions against Russia, agreed since 2014, while Moscow will not cease aggression against Ukraine; does not guarantee that in the future it will not attack Ukraine; Ukraine does not compensate for the damage caused during the invasion.
The proposed recommendations provide:
Ukraine needs resources for the maintenance of powerful Armed Forces of Ukraine that can withstand the armed forces and other militarized formations of Russia.
Perennial stable investments in the defense and industrial base of Ukraine, a scalable transfer of weapons and intelligence support from the allies, intensive training missions and joint exercises under the auspices of the EU and NATO.
security guarantees should indicate a number of obligations taken by the Garrier of Guarantors together with Ukraine. They should be politically and legally obligatory for execution.
The contract will unite the main group of the allied countries and Ukraine. A group of guarantees can consist of the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Turkey, as well as the countries of North Europe and the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe.
A package of guarantees contains preventive measures of military, financial, infrastructure, technical, informational nature to prevent new aggression, as well as measures that should be taken urgent in the event of a new encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The contract provides for a full sanctions package against the Russian Federation, and may also contain additional components as agreements on providing Ukraine with modern air defense systems and regional security agreements in the Black Sea.
security guarantees do not replace Ukraine’s desire to join NATO.