Biological medicines

2021: Withdrawal of Ukraine from the agreement with the CIS on the creation of an interstate reserve of biologics

April 21, 2021 it became known about the withdrawal of Ukraine from the agreement with the CIS on biological drugs. The corresponding bill was approved by the government of the country.

To withdraw from the agreement on the creation of the Interstate Reserve of Biologics and Other Means of Animal Welfare in the States Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, committed in Moscow on April 12, 1996, the document says.

According to RIA Novosti, we are talking about an agreement concluded in 1996 - then the countries pledged to create an interstate reserve of biologics and other animal welfare products in the CIS through shared participation.

Ukraine withdraws from agreement with CIS on creation of interstate reserve of biologics

As indicated in the explanatory note to the bill approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, further participation of Ukraine in the agreement is impractical, since the country has not used drugs from this reserve for 10 years. In addition, the reserve is in Russia, and the drugs included in it are in most cases focused on diseases common in the Russian Federation.

These drugs cannot satisfy the modern needs of Ukraine in the safety of its own livestock, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal.

This is not the first agreement with the CIS from which Ukraine withdraws. In March 2021, the country withdrew from the signed agreements within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on cooperation in the field of cellular communications, and on February 23 - from the CIS agreements on aviation. On April 1, 2019, the friendship, cooperation and partnership agreement between Russia and Ukraine ceased to operate.^[1]

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