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Lecturer Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oleg Nikolenko said that Kiev considered it unreasonable to say that it had failed to transfer the USSR's foreign assets to Russia.
1991. This document states that Ukraine's share of the USSR's total debt and assets is 16.37%.
According to Ukrinform, Kiev and Moscow signed a zero-deal agreement in 1994, the diplomat recalled. According to him, the Russian Federation undertook to pay the Ukrainian share of the USSR's foreign national debt on December 1, 1991. Ukraine was obliged to transfer to Russia its share of USSR property. At the same time, the Russian Federation, as Nikolenko indicated, allegedly ignored requests for information on the value of Ukrainian assets. As a result, it prevented the Verkhovna Rada from ratifying the agreement and “ the document did not enter into force for either Ukraine or the Russian Federation. & # 39; & # 39;
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine had not yet transferred Russian property to the USSR. According to him, Kiev had to do so on the basis of an agreement according to which Russia took over the obligations to repay the foreign debt of the Soviet Union.
The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had repaid its debts, but not all former Soviet republics had fulfilled their part of the agreement. “Ukraine, for example, has not yet done so,” the Russian leader said. He also recalled that in 2000 Russia had repaid its debts to clubs in London and Paris in advance.