Belarus–Ukraine relations

Belarus-Ukraine relations

Belarus
Ukraine

Belarus–Ukraine relations (Belarusian: Беларуска-ўкраінскія адносіны, Byelaruska-ŭkrainskiya adnosiny, Ukrainian: Українсько-білоруські відносини, Ukrains'ko-Bilorus'ki vidnosyny, Russian: Белорусско-украинские отношения, Belorussko-ukrainskiye otnosheniya) are foreign relations between Belarus and Ukraine. Both countries were successively ruled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Second Polish Republic, and ultimately, the Russian Empire. Prior to the 1991 breakup, both countries were part of the Soviet Union as the Belarusian SSR and Ukrainian SSR when they were the founding members of the United Nations in 1945. Being Slavic nations, both Belarus and Ukraine share closely related cultures and are predominantly inhabited by the East Slavic ethnic groups of Belarusians and Ukrainians respectively, along with a few Russians. Today, the two countries share an 891–km border.

Belarus has an embassy in Kiev and an honorary consulate in Lviv. Ukraine has an embassy in Minsk and a general consulate in Brest. Both countries are full members of the Baku Initiative and Central European Initiative.

An agreement on the state border between Belarus and Ukraine signed in 1997 was to be submitted to the Belarusian parliament for ratification after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko finished the process of the formalization of the border issues between the two states early November 2009.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Belarus to ratify border agreement with Ukraine Archived November 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., Interfax-Ukraine (November 5, 2009)
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