Ukraine withdraws from one more CIS agreement

The Cabinet of Ministers has taken the decision on Ukraine's withdrawal from the Agreement on the Creation of the Interstate System of Documentary Encrypted Communications of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The government's representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"Ukraine has withdrawn from the Agreement on the Creation of the Interstate System of Documentary Encrypted Communications of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which was signed on October 18, 1996 in Moscow," he said.

The agreement provided for the creation of the interstate system of documentary encrypted communications of the Commonwealth of Independent States "Atlas-CIS," as a component of the automated system of information exchange between the member states of the Commonwealth.

It was also envisaged to create national subsystems of the interstate system at the expense of the member states' own funds.

In addition, the states had to use in the interstate system the information technologies, software and means of information protection that were provided by Russia under bilateral agreements.