Ukraine's government has proposed to parliament terminating a free-trade agreement with Belarus, which supports Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022, cabinet minister Taras Melnychuk said on December 25. The move to cancel the agreement was taken "in connection with a fundamental change of circumstances -- the involvement of the Republic of Belarus in the illegal use of force against Ukraine," he said. The government proposes terminating the free-trade agreement of December 1992 and two protocols related to the treaty. After Russia's invasion, Ukraine suspended its trade relations with Minsk.
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