Office of External Relations
July 18, 2020

Black Sea Security: 5 Ukrainian Legal Steps

Bohdan Ustymenko
 
USUF Advisory Board member and one of Ukraine's leading maritime legal experts, Bohdan Ustymenko, has distilled the issues Ukraine faces in the Black and Azov seas as a result of Russian aggression into a scheme that also describes five immediate measures Ukraine must take to begin addressing these challenges:
  1. Establish the breadth of the Ukrainian territorial sea
  2. Delimit the maritime boundaries (Ukraine/Russia & Georgia/Russia)
  3. Inform all states that the Azov Treaty is being voided
  4. Create a Joint Maritime Operations Center
  5. Adopt a Ukrainian Maritime Security Strategy (UMSS)

The graphics also help visualize the reality of the situation.

You can view the presentation as pdf at the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation website:


Bob McConnell
Coordinator, External Relations
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation’s Friends of Ukraine Network

Robert A. McConnell is a co-founder of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and Coordinator of External Relations for the Foundation’s Friends of Ukraine Network. He is Principal of R.A. McConnell and Associates. Previously, he has served as head of the Government Advocacy Practice at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Vice President – Washington for CBS, Inc, and Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice during the Reagan Administration. rmcconnell@usukraine.org
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