On the 21st of April 2010 in the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine, President Victor F. Yanukovich of Ukraine and President Dmitry A. Medvedev of the Russian Federation consented to The Arrangement where the time of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation to stay an on the area of Ukraine is reached out for quite some time, from 2017 to 2042 with a programmed prolongation for 5 extra years.
In Ukraine, The Agreement caused ire of the resistance, of gatherings of environmentalists, of nearby Councils and overall of all sections of the Ukrainian culture. An incredible number of investigations presumed that The Agreement goes against the Constitution of Ukraine.
The Association of Independent Jurists and Journalists "The Democratic Space" chose to inspect The Agreement and the legitimate grounds both for The Agreement and against it. The examination zeroed in on whether The Agreement fell in consistence with the relevant guidelines laid out by the ongoing Ukrainian regulation and restricting standards of the International Law. Thus, the entire article of this depends on the discoveries of the Association's "Investigation of The Agreement among Ukraine and the Russian Federation relating to inquiries of presence of The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation on the domain of Ukraine".
The ongoing Ukrainian and International regulations that apply to this Agreement are:
1. The Constitution of Ukraine.
2. An arrangement (named the Basic Agreement) among Ukraine and the Russian Federation "On the Status and Conditions for the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation to Remain on the Territory of Ukraine" dated 28.05.1997.
3. An understanding among ukraine nft and the Russian Federation "On Parameters of the Black Sea Fleet Division" dated 28.05.1997.
4. An Agreement between the Governments of Ukraine and of the Russian Federation "On Mutual Calculations Related to the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Division and to Remaining on the Territory of Ukraine" dated 28.05.1997.
5. The Law of Ukraine "On the International Treaties of Ukraine" dated 29.06.2004.
6. The Law of Ukraine "On the Order of Access and Conditions for Sub-Units of the Armed Forces of Foreign States to Remain on the Territory of Ukraine" dated 22.02.2000.
7. The Vienna Convention "On the Law of Treaties" of 1969.
