Legal definition of Ukraine’s neutrality and non-aligned status: myths and realities

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DATE: 16.07.2024 

ТIME: 12:00 

Legal definition of Ukraine’s neutrality and non-aligned status: myths and realities. 

To the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine. 

SPEAKERS: 

Valeriy Chaly, member of the National Constitutional Council in 2008-2010, Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine in 2014-2015, UCMC Chair of the Board, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine;

Volodymyr Butkevych, People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the second convocation, co-chairman of the subcommittee of the Constitutional Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on drafting the Constitution of Ukraine in 1995-1996, president of the All-Ukrainian Association of International Law in 1991-1999, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in 1998-2008;

Ivan Zayets, People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the first, second, third, fourth, and sixth convocations, member of the Temporary Special Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the development of draft laws of Ukraine on amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine in 2000-2001, member of the NSDC of Ukraine in 2000-2001;

Andrii Mahera, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of Ukraine in 2007-2018, constitutional law expert of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms; 

Oleksandr Motsyk, Head of the Contractual and Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 1995-1997, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for European Integration in 2004-2005, First Deputy State Secretary of Ukraine in 2005-2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.