“A game is going on, a political game around one important moment in Russian politics. I want to formulate one very important position that I discussed with Boris Yeltsin. He asked me to listen to one document that he will submit for approval to the Federal Assembly of Russia. This document was called “Fundamentals of Russia’s foreign policy.” One of the first points included the following: Ukraine was, is and will be in the system of Russia’s strategic interests, “said the first president of Ukraine.
According to him, he was surprised then.
“I say that the Belovezhskaya Agreements stipulate that we are equal states, that each will be independent, sovereign. He says:” It is written this way, but our history is very difficult, there were pluses and minuses, but more was that we were where – something uniform for a long time “, – explained Kravchuk.
He believes that there will be no success in relations with Russia until “Russia’s foreign policy is changed and, conceptually, Russia refuses to resolve any issues only by force, and not in compliance with the norms of international law.”
- On December 8, 1991, the heads of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine gathered in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, stated that the USSR was ceasing to exist, and signed an agreement on the creation of the CIS. The document was signed by senior officials and heads of government of three countries: Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Burbulis from the RSFSR, Stanislav Shushkevich and Vyacheslav Kebich from Belarus, Leonid Kravchuk and Vitold Fokin from Ukraine. As a result of the collapse of the USSR, 15 independent states were formed.
- Leonid Kravchuk was the President of Ukraine from December 1991 to July 1994.
- Yeltsin was the president of the Russian Federation from July 1991 to December 1999.
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