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02-07-2009 11:56 Ukraine demands lighthouse return from RBSF
Ukraine is urging the Russian Black Sea Fleet (RBSF) to immediately return navigation and surveying facilities that belong to Kyiv, reads a statement of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Proceeding from an international responsibility of Ukraine for ensuring security of navigation in own territorial waters, as well as in accordance with judgments of the Ukrainian courts, Ukraine is calling on the Russian party, without prevarications, to return to Ukraine all navigation and surveying property that belongs to it, and which is being illegally used by the Russian Black Sea Fleet,” the document notes. The MFA reminds that on June 16, 2009 the RBSF servicemen prevented law enforcement officers of the Ukrainian executive service from fulfilling a decision of the Economic Court of Kherson region on the return of the Mars-75 radio navigation station to the Ukrainian town of Henichesk. “The Russian side has again ignored a decision of the Economic Court of Kherson region that conflicts with the norms of international law and Ukraine's legislation, as well as a bilateral agreement on the status and terms of staying of the RBSF in the Ukrainian territory of May, 1997,” the MFA underlines. The ministry insists that all objects of navigation and surveying support, including the Mars-75 radio navigation station, is Ukraine's ownership and cannot be subject to rent, they have never been rendered for the Russian party's use. “According to the Ukrainian Constitution, court jurisdiction applies to all legal relationships that take place in the state. Judgments are passed by courts in the name of Ukraine and must be fulfilled without fail in the territory of Ukraine. The Russian party, in accordance with the basic agreements on the Black Sea Fleet, pledged to adhere to Ukraine's laws,” the MFA statement reads.
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