The agreement between Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus on cooperation in providing the rights of persons, belonging to ethnic minorities

of July 23, 1999

Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus that "Parties" hereinafter are referred to as further,

considering that development and consolidation of the relations of friendship, neighborliness and cooperation between them correspond to interests of their people,

in view of interrelation of historical destiny of the people of both states, their spiritual and cultural proximity, and also provision of the Treaty of friendship, neighborliness and cooperation between Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus of July 17, 1995,

confirming the commitment to observance of international standards in the field of the human rights affirmed in the General declaration of human rights, international covenants on human rights and other fundamental documents of the UN

considering obligations which follow from the Gelsinsky Final act of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, documents in the field of human measurement of OSCE,

proceeding from the fact that the rights of persons which concern to ethnic minorities are integral part of the conventional human rights

in view of that in the territory of each Party persons who treat the Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalities live,

recognizing that ethnic minorities are integral part of society in which they live, enrich it with the work, originality and culture,

relation system in the field of providing the rights of ethnic minorities based on mutual respect and equal partnership, and also, proceeding from need to provide at the national level of need for culture and education of the Belarusian ethnic minority in Ukraine and the Ukrainian ethnic minority in the Republic of Belarus,

being sure that for consecutive providing the rights of persons which concern to ethnic minorities, preserving and developments of their ethical culture and language originality it is necessary to develop effective cooperation, to expand the contractual legal base in the field of the international relations,

agreed about it:

Article 1

In this Agreement under persons who treat ethnic minorities, are understood respectively:

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