Ukraine: “Budapest Agreement” was a symbol of short-sightedness about strategic security
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in the last week On the 30th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum, according to which this newly independent country surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees from Russia and the West, strongly criticizing this memorandum, once again demanding that Ukraine join the became NATO.
This statement is expected while the NATO members in the meeting ahead of this military alliance led by the United States may Increasingly, the beginning of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine will be discussed and discussed.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine wrote in a statement: We have come to the definitive conclusion that the only real guarantee for Ukraine, in addition to deterrence against future Russian aggression against Ukraine and other countries, is the full membership of Kyiv in NATO.
This statement follows: The Budapest agreement, which was signed by the United States, England, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, was “a symbol of short-sightedness in strategic security decisions”. Failure to provide effective and real security guarantees for Ukraine in the 1990s was a strategic mistake that Moscow exploited. This mistake should be corrected.
