Belarus–Ukraine relations are foreign relations between Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

 and Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. Before 1991, both countries were part of the USSR and before then of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

. Today, the two countries share 891 km of border.
Belarus has an embassy in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 and an honorary consulate in Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

. Ukraine has an embassy in Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

 and a general consulate in Brest

Brest, Belarus

Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...

. Both countries are full members of the Baku Initiative

Baku Initiative

The Baku Initiative is an international initiative of the European Union. It is a policy dialogue on energy and transport cooperation between the European Union and the littoral states of the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and their neighbours, undertaken as part of the INOGATE energy and TRACECA...

, Common Economic Space

Common Economic Space

Common Economic Space may refer to:* Common Economic Space or Single Economic Space , a project of economical integration of four post-Soviet states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, who are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States * Common Economic Space or Common European...

, and Central European Initiative

Central European Initiative

The Central European Initiative is a forum of regional cooperation in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, counting 18 member states. It was formed in Budapest in 1989.-History:...

. An agreement on the state border between Belarus and Ukraine signed in 1997 is to be submitted to the Belarusian parliament for ratification after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenka and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko

Viktor Yushchenko

Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution...

finished the process of the formalization of the border issues between the two states early November 2009.

External links

• Belarussian embassy in Kiev (in Russian only)
• Ukrainian embassy in Minsk (in Russian and Ukrainian only)