On this day, 32 years ago, September 3, 1993 (July 17, 1993 in the lunar calendar), Russia and Uzbekistan reached an agreement on the issue of the Black Sea Fleet. On September 3, 1993, Russian President Yeltsin and Ukraine President Kravchuk reached a preliminary settlement on the Black Sea Fleet issue. The two sides agreed in principle to hand over the entire Black Sea Fleet and its bases to Russia. Russia will compensate for part of the fleet originally assigned to Ukraine and use it to repay Ukraine's debts to Russia. Russia will pay for the use of the Sevastopol base as compensation to Ukraine. The two presidents also announced that they had reached an agreement on strategic nuclear weapons in Uzbekistan.