Kravchuk told how the US lied to Ukraine with the Budapest Memorandum

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The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk accused Washington that he “cheated” Kiev because of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum was signed in 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, USA and UK. According to the document, Ukraine has acceded to the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons to States not possessing nuclear weapons. According to Kravchuk, the Memorandum is declarative. The American government publicly acknowledged that the mechanisms for its implementation for the other participants there. “And so the agreement — I was surprised — is not mandatory for the signatory countries. This, I think, not ...

Kravchuk told how the US lied to Ukraine with the Budapest Memorandum

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