Belarusian-Russian agreement on combat training centers ratified by parliament's lower chamber
14:33, 28 June
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The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus has passed the bill on ratifying the Belarusian-Russian intergovernmental agreement on setting up and on operation of combat training centers for the joint training of military personnel of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, BelTA has learned.
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The bill was brought in to the House of Representatives by the Council of Ministers. The agreement on setting up and on operation of combat training centers for the joint training of Belarusian and Russian military personnel was signed in Minsk on 28 March 2023 on the basis of the Belarus president's decree on a draft international agreement of 31 October 2022.
The agreement regulates organizational matters in the course of creating and operating the combat training centers on the basis of Belarusian and Russian army units. The agreement defines their main tasks and how the defense ministries are supposed to interact in the course of providing comprehensive support for the operation of the centers. The Belarusian and Russian defense ministries have been put in charge of realizing the agreement.
In the course of determining the jurisdiction and providing legal aid in matters concerning the operation of the combat training centers the sides will abide by the agreement on jurisdiction and legal assistance in cases relating to the temporary stay of the collective security forces on the territories of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states of 16 September 2021 regardless of whether the agreement has come into force or not.
The bill has been prepared to express Belarus' consent to abiding by the agreement. The bill's adoption will not entail financial, economic, political or other consequences for the Republic of Belarus.
The bill does not contain provisions that contradict the Constitution. It is compatible with laws and regulations, matches other criteria established for evaluating laws and regulations, and has been prepared while observing lawmaking procedures. At the same time individual provisions of the agreement stipulate rules that differ from the national legislation. In particular, they differ from provisions of the Civil Code and the laws on the legal status of foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Republic of Belarus, on healthcare, on information, informatization, and information protection, as well as other laws. This is why in accordance with articles 19 and 20 of the law on international treaties of the Republic of Belarus the bill needs to be ratified by the parliament.
