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15. The indigenous population and its citizens are called upon to
play a vital role in the rational use and improvement of the
environment through their knowledge and traditional practices.
16. War has a devastating impact on the process of sustainable

development. It is necessary to respect international law that protects
the environment during armed conflicts and co-operates in its further
development.

17. States will resolve all their environmental disputes by
peaceful means and in appropriate ways in accordance with the
Charter of the United Nations, and so on.

6.2. The sources of international environmental law.

Sources of international environmental law are international
normative acts, adopted by states and other subjects of international
relations, which contain rules of conduct that regulate human relations

with the natural environment and ecologically significant behaviour of
subjects of international environmental legal relations.
Sources of international environmental law are divided into 2

groups:
1) those which are binding on the states participating in them
and which have signed them (conventions, contracts, agreements);
2) who have recommendations (decisions and resolutions of

conferences, symposiums, forum of meetings).
Ukraine is a party to a large number of international conventions
and agreements related to environmental protection (in particular the

Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992, the Convention for the
Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution, 1992, the Danube River
Basin Conservation Convention 1994 etc.). This list needs to be
complemented by a number of treaties with the USSR, since Ukraine

is the successor to rights and obligations under international treaties of
the USSR, which do not contradict the Constitution and interests of
the republic, in particular, the Agreement between the USSR and the

USA on cooperation in the field of environmental protection in 1973;
The Convention between the Government of the USSR and the
Government of Japan on the Conservation of Endangered Migratory

birds and Birds and their habitats in 1973; The Treaty on Prohibition

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