KYIV, March 29 - Deputy Foreign Minister for European Integration Olena Zerkal believes the treaty on friendship, cooperation and partnership with Russia must be terminated. It is necessary to talk about a new treaty, she said.

"To my mind it is impossible to continue this agreement, because the Russian Federation has already brutally violated this treaty, especially as regards the last elections held in Crimea - presidential elections in the Russian Federation ... In the new realities of relations with Russia, we still need to enter into a new treaty that will also provide for legal instruments to resolve disputes between the countries," she said in an interview with Novoye Vremia Radio on Wednesday.