Enforcement Of Foreign Judgments - 2013

1 Treaties

Is your country party to any bilateral or multilateral treaties for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments? What is the country's approach to entering into these treaties and what if any amendments or reservations has your country made to such treaties?

Ukraine is a party to the Hague Convention on Civil Procedure of 1954, which however applies only to the recognition and enforcement of foreign orders for costs and expenses of proceedings. Ukraine also ratified two relevant multilateral treaties, which were concluded between the members of the Commonwealth of Interdependent States, in particular:

• the Minsk Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Matrimonial and Criminal Cases of 1993 (along with Ukraine, the parties to this treaty are Azerbaijan, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia); and