Belarus pulls out of information protection agreement with Ukraine

May 17, BPN. The Belarusian Council of Ministers has terminated the agreement with Ukraine on cooperation in the field of technical protection of information, says a directive dated May 15 and published on the National Legal Internet Portal.

The governments of both countries signed the agreement in Minsk in 2003 and amendments in 2014.

In July 2022, Ukraine terminated an agreement on inland waterways navigation and in February 2023, a search and rescue agreement.

On May 6, the Ukrainian government also withdrew from two treaties with Belarus: a veterinary agreement dating back to August 2002 and a plant quarantine and protection agreement signed in October 2013.

Less than a week later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky approved Kyiv’s withdrawal from a memorandum on border protection cooperation between Ukraine, Belarus and Russia signed in 1994.

In February 2022, Russia started a full-scale war against Ukraine. Authorities in Minsk denied Belarusian army troops’ involvement in combat operations on the Russian side. However, Belarus allowed Russian troops and weapons to move freely through the country, use its airspace, refuel and store military equipment and attack Ukraine from its territory.