Volumes of cargo transportation in 2020, MLN tons.
Since March 1, Cyprus has included Ukraine in the list of countries of the “grey one,” entry from which is allowed only to citizens of Cyprus and family members, as well as residents and holders of special permits, the consular section of the Ukrainian Embassy in Cyprus said.
“Since March 1, 2021, the distribution of countries of the world by categories has been applied in Cyprus. As of March 1, Ukraine belongs to the ‘grey zone’ (categories will be reviewed weekly). Follow further changes,” the consular department said on Facebook on Monday.
According to the information of the embassy, entry from the countries of the “grey zone” is only allowed to citizens of Cyprus permanently residing in the Republic of Cyprus, their foreign spouses and minor children, residents of the Republic of Cyprus, persons who are allowed to enter in accordance with the Vienna Convention, regardless of their citizenship, who have have a special entry permit from the government of Cyprus; citizens who have received special permission from the Government of Cyprus to enter Cyprus.
Transit shipments of Russian gas through Ukraine have increased as temperatures in Europe have normalized, data from Gazprom, the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine and European gas transport operators show.
Over the weekend, temperatures in Europe dropped from unusually warm double digits back to average figures for this time of year.
Gazprom pumped 106 million cubic meters of gas through Ukraine on February 27 (nominations for Sunday and Monday are the same), while from February 17 to 26 it pumped an average of 79 mcm per day, with a low of 66.2 mcm on February 20.
The Russian gas giant had booked a far larger amount of transit for February: 123.2 mcm per day, including 109 mcm under its long-term transit contract and an additional 14.2 mcm based on monthly booking.
The fishing regime in the Black Sea for 2021 entered into force on March 1.
According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine on Monday, the approved fishing regime and the rules for catching aquatic living resources in the Black Sea for industrial fishing for this year have determined the tools and places of catch, the requirements for the fishing vessels and the conditions for the spawning prohibition.
According to the Ecology Ministry, the annual limits defining the amount and type of living aquatic resources allowed for catching are presented on the ministry’s website.
According to the documents, in the Black Sea this year, the limit for catching sprat is set at 20,000 tonnes, mullets – 920 tonnes, shrimp – 750 tonnes, grey mullets – 620 tonnes, Black Sea herring – 510 tonnes, and Black Sea turbot – 158 tonnes. The catch of gobies, redlip mullets, European anchovy, sprats, clams and rapa whelks is not limited.
In addition, the Ecology Ministry is currently working on the approval of fishing regimes in fishery water bodies of Ukraine, so that fishermen can start their activities as soon as possible.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, through a decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), set a clear two-month deadline for officials to bring their civil status in line with the law, MP Oleh Dunda (the Servant of the People party faction) believes. “There is a clear signal for the state apparatus: to finally decide which state interests it represents in power,” the parliamentarian said.
In his opinion, it will not work to hide one’s dual or triple citizenship, as well as to hope for a delay in the implementation of the NSDC decision.
“A bill on the settlement of dual citizenship has already been registered in the parliament, the theses of which were used by the NSDC when making its decision,” he says.
In addition, according to Dunda, an order to the Cabinet of Ministers to develop a regulatory framework for checking Ukrainians for dual citizenship within two months will only speed up this process.
To control dual citizenship in Ukraine, a special body will be created that will keep a register of all persons who have not only Ukrainian citizenship. In addition, it is planned to introduce a multi-level verification system.
“Such mechanisms will regulate and legalize dual citizenship in Ukraine. And most importantly, they will not allow people who do not take into account the interests of our country into power. State security should be in all spheres and at all levels,” Dunda said.
As reported, the NSDC instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to develop a legal basis for dual citizenship within two months.
At the end of January, MPs from the Servant of the People faction Oleh Dunda, Oleksandr Aliksiychuk, Dmytro Mykysha registered bill No. 4640 on amendments to certain laws of Ukraine concerning the legal provision of foreign citizenship (nationality) for citizens of Ukraine.
The first foreign minister of independent Ukraine Anatoliy Zlenko has died at the age of 83, said ex-deputy foreign minister of Ukraine, ex-permanent representative of Ukraine to the EU Kostiantyn Yeliseyev.
“With inexpressible pain I received the tragic news that the first head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of independent Ukraine, my teacher and diplomatic father Anatoliy Maksymovych Zlenko has passed away! Everything that I have achieved in diplomacy is thanks to his school of diplomacy. Sincere condolences to the Zlenko family. Eternal memory!” Yeliseyev wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Zlenko was in charge of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in 1991-1994 and 2000-2003, and in 1994-1997 he served as the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN.
He began his career as a diplomat in 1967, working in the structures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian USSR, then in the UNESCO Secretariat in Paris. In 1983-1987 he was the Permanent Representative of the Ukrainian USSR to UNESCO, in 1997-2000 – the Permanent Representative of the already independent Ukraine at UNESCO, combining this position with the mission of the post of Ukraine in France and Portugal. In 2004-2005, he represented Ukraine in the UN Commission on Human Rights.
Since September 2010, Zlenko has been Deputy President of the Kyiv Slavic University and headed the Institute of Slavic Studies and International Relations at the university.
