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The Ukrainian state needs a mandate from the people to appeal to the signatory countries of the Budapest Memorandum regarding the fulfillment of their obligations under this document, the Office of the President said.
Updating the provisions of the Budapest Memorandum can help the Ukrainian state to strengthen its negotiating positions on the unemployment of Crimea, as well as certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This was reported by the press service of the Presidency.
Today, the head of state, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, expressed the last three questions of the survey that he initiated, among which was the following: “Does Ukraine, which has annexed part of its territory, needs to raise the issue internationally? Or all signatories? [Будапештского] of the memorandum fulfill their obligations, or no one? “
“It must be admitted that the Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed in Budapest on December 5, 1994, has become one of the most underrated documents created in the turbulent 1990s on the ruins of the USSR. lies in the fact that Ukraine, delivering the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world at that time and consequently making the greatest contribution to world peace and security after World War II, received guarantees from major military powers of the world with respect to the inviolability of its security and existing borders. “, – noted in the OP.
The Office of the President recalled that the signatories to the Budapest Memorandum pledged to refrain from the threat of force or the use of arms against Ukraine.
“Analyzing the Budapest Memorandum we came to the conclusion that the security guarantees against Ukraine were violated long before 2014. For example, it is worth remembering the well-known 2003 border confrontation in the conflict on the island of Tuzla, which threatened the territorial integrity of Ukraine. the so-called gas wars, which are a manifestation of conscious economic pressure aimed at subordinating Ukraine to its own interests, ”the message says.
The Office of the President believes that ignoring the obligations of the signatory states of the Budapest Memorandum to Ukraine casts doubt on the entire set of international treaties on non-proliferation and the control of weapons of mass destruction. And further non-compliance with the provisions of the memorandum may block the achievement of new diplomatic solutions in the field of global security.
“Taking into account also the duration of the violation by one of the signatory states of its obligations, confirmed in the memorandum, we insist on the need for joint work of other guarantor states to restore the security and territorial integrity of Ukraine. We would like to emphasize that this is not the position of one of the political teams in Ukraine: the team This may be a national position, which is much stronger … Our state needs a mandate from the people to appeal to the states – signatories of the memorandum to fulfill its obligations, “said the OP.
The President’s Office stressed that updating the provisions of the Budapest Memorandum can help the Ukrainian state to strengthen its negotiating positions on the unemployment of Crimea, as well as certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
The Budapest Memorandum was signed on December 5, 1994. According to the document, the signatory countries – Great Britain, Russia and the United States – pledged to be guarantors of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and borders, as well as to refrain from using any weapon against Ukraine, not just nuclear. Furthermore, the signatories promised not to exert economic pressure on Kiev. In return, Ukraine renounced its nuclear status. The memorandum was signed by then-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major.
In 2014, Russia violated the terms of the memorandum by annexing Crimea and launching armed aggression in Donbas, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that Russia did not violate the Budapest Agreement, as it did not use nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
On October 13, 2020, Zelenskiy said that on local election day, Ukrainians will be asked to answer “five important questions.” He did not specify what citizens would be asked about and how the survey would be conducted; the questions were asked gradually.
Zelensky asked the first two questions on October 14-15.
The Central Electoral Commission reported that they are not preparing the survey. The president’s office stressed that the results of the survey will have no legal consequences.
The people’s deputy of the “Servant of the People”, Yevhenia Kravchuk, said that in the near future in Ukraine they will officially represent a public organization that will deal with a survey in Ukraine together with sociologists. He stressed that the survey will be funded by sponsors at the expense of funds of “Ukrainian origin.”
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