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Zelensky requests foreign ministry to arrange Budapest memorandum summit

  • By Al Mayadeen net
  • Source: Agencies
  • 20 Feb 2022 17:11
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The Ukrainian president said he instructed the Ukrainian foreign ministry to arrange a conference with the signatories of the memorandum signed on December 5, 1994.

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  • Zelensky requests foreign ministry to arrange Budapest memorandum summit
    The Budapest Memorandum was signed on 5 December 1994 at the summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)(Reuters)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has directed the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to call a summit conference of the Budapest Memorandum’s signatories.

The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the Budapest Memorandum on December 5, 1994. Ukraine pledged to destroy its nuclear weapons as part of the pact, while Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom guaranteed Kiev's security.

Zelensky told the Munich Security Conference he "instructed the Foreign Ministry to convene a summit of the countries - signatories to the Budapest Memorandum. If it fails to take place or refuses to give Ukraine security guarantees, Kiev will recognize it as well as the clauses signed in 1994 as null and void." 

After meeting with UK foreign minister Liz Truss on February 10, 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recalled at a news conference that the Budapest Memorandum was accompanied by a declaration, also signed by France and Ukraine, requiring all signatories to refrain from any violations of OSCE principles, including respect for the rights of ethnic minorities. 

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