Claims related to Russia's breach of the UN Convention
on the Law of the Sea will soon be lodged with international courts, Ukrainian
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.
"These are crucial matters which every one of us
will support; this is about ways every one of us will use international entities,
including international judicial entities, to prove that Russia has breached
every fundamental convention," the minister told Ukrainian ambassadors at
a conference on Monday.
Ukraine will soon take "a legal action, which
pertains to Russia's violation of its commitments under the Convention on the
Law of the Sea," at international courts, Klimkin said.
"Within the next few weeks, we will start to
prove at arbitration courts upon holding relevant consultations that Russia has
violated obligations under the convention banning financing of terrorism. We
will certainly prove that what is happening in the territory of temporarily
occupied Crimea is actually discrimination," Klimkin said.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in June that Kyiv
would appeal to international courts in connection with Russia's breach of the
Convention on the Law of the Sea. "This decision aims to protect Ukrainian
rights and interests guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of
1982 by Russia in the Crimean territorial sea, waters of the Black and Azov
seas and the Kerch Strait, including rights to natural resources of the
continental shelf," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Klimkin said on August 11 that Ukraine had finalized
preparations for an arbitration proceeding against Russia in relation to
sovereign rights in Crimean waters.
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