Kharkiv Pact

Signing of the deal reached at the Kharkiv summit at 21 April 2010 by Alexey Miller and Yevhen Bakulin (with Dimitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovych standing in the background)
Signed21 April 2010
LocationKharkiv, Ukraine
Effective27 April 2010
Expiration31 March 2014
Parties
Languages
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian

The Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, widely referred to as the Kharkiv Pact (Ukrainian: Харківський пакт)[1][2] or Kharkov Accords (Russian: Харьковские соглашения),[3][4] was a treaty between Ukraine and Russia whereby the Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea was extended beyond 2017 until 2042, with an additional five-year renewal option in exchange for a multiyear discounted contract to provide Ukraine with Russian natural gas.[5]

The agreement, signed on 21 April 2010 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and ratified by the parliaments of the two countries on 27 April 2010, aroused much controversy in Ukraine. The treaty was effectively a continuation of the lease provisions that were part of the 1997 Black Sea Fleet Partition Treaty between the two states. Shortly after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014,[6] Russia unilaterally terminated the treaty on 31 March 2014.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Ukrainian sovereignty withstands Medvedev". Kyiv Post. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  2. ^ "Харківський пакт" не гарантує, що з ЧФ РФ не буде проблем (in Ukrainian). Ukrayinska Pravda. 14 May 2010. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  3. ^ Большинство украинцев поддерживают Харьковские соглашения (in Russian). Segodnya.Ua. 2 June 2010. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  4. ^ Янукович коснулся истории (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 28 April 2010. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  5. ^ The Great Power (mis)Management by Alexander Astrov, Ashgate Publishing, 2011, ISBN 1409424677 (page 82)
  6. ^ Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president, BBC News (23 February 2014)
    Ukraine protests timeline, BBC News (23 February 2014)
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