Tomorrow, November 13, the meeting of Russian-Ukrainian commission on fisheries and the allocation of quotas for 2020 for fishing in the Sea of Azov will be held online. Following the results of the meeting will be signed a protocol.
According to the Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection, for the first time since Ukraine’s independence, the meeting will be held online, and the document will be signed through diplomatic channels.
“The failure to sign the protocol on the distribution of fishing limits in the Sea of Azov for next year will results in Ukraine will lose legal grounds to carry out commercial fishing. Moreover, having no power superiority in the Sea of Azov, Ukraine will only have the coastline for fishing, so we ask the public to support such forced negotiations in the interests of Ukraine and our fishermen working in the waters of the Sea of Azov,” the ministry said.
It is about 90 enterprises and 4,000 fishermen. Currently, there are no alternative mechanisms in the current legal framework for regulating the activities of the parties in the area of fisheries in the Sea of Azov.
“If Ukraine refuses to agree on bilateral protocols that govern all relevant fisheries issues in the Azov Sea, this will jeopardize the activities of Ukrainian fishermen,” the ministry emphasized.
In 2019, Ukraine through diplomats received an official invitation from Russia to negotiate and sign a protocol on the use of natural resources in 2020 in the Sea of Azov.
Ukraine’s MFA: Document following Normandy Four summit was prepared at request of the Russian Federation.
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