The agreement between the Representative for cases of religions and nationalities of the Republic of Belarus and the State committee of Ukraine for nationalities and religions about cooperation

of June 4, 2008

The representative for cases of religions and nationalities of the Republic of Belarus and the State committee of Ukraine for nationalities and religions, further - the Parties,

building the relations in the field of providing the rights of persons belonging to ethnic minorities in the spirit of the Treaty of friendship, neighborliness and cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and Ukraine of July 17, 1995,

being guided by the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and Ukraine on cooperation in providing the rights of persons belonging to ethnic minorities of July 23, 1999,

in view of that persons of the Ukrainian nationality living in the Republic of Belarus and persons of the Belarusian nationality living in Ukraine treat ethnic minorities and are integral part of society in which they live and which is enriched with the work, original culture and traditions,

aiming at creating favorable conditions for realization of the rights of persons belonging to the Belarusian ethnic minority in Ukraine and to the Ukrainian ethnic minority in the Republic of Belarus, activities of their organizations

relying on the principles of equality and mutual advantage,

aiming to strengthen the contractual legal basis of the relations and to give them new qualities,

based on interest in cooperation on providing the rights of ethnic minorities, development of their ethnic originality, culture and language, preserving the stable international relations in the territories of the states of the Parties,

considering that at this stage of social development of the states of the Parties influence of religion and the religious organizations considerably increased and political and social stability of the states of the Parties, and also that circumstance that in the territory of their states generally similar religious structures connected among themselves, including organizationally are effective in many respects depends on regulation of the religious sphere, and the Parties solve in general similar problems,

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