KYIV — Ukraine on Monday requested an urgent
meeting of the
UN Security Council to address the threat of a Russian invasion,
citing security assurances it received in return for giving up its nuclear
arsenal in 1994.
اضافة اعلان
The agreement, co-signed by
Russia, the
United States and Britain, assured Ukraine that its “territorial integrity or
political independence” would be respected in return for its decision to move
all its nuclear weapons to Russia.
The independent republic of Ukraine inherited the
world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal when the Soviet Union formally dissolved
in 1991.
The agreement ... assured Ukraine that its “territorial integrity ...” would be respected.
“On President (Volodymyr) Zelensky’s initiative I
officially requested
UNSC member states to immediately hold consultations under
article 6 of the Budapest memorandum,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted.
The Security Council must address “practical steps
to guarantee the security of
Ukraine,” he wrote.
Article 6 of the 1994 agreement says
Moscow,
Washington and London “will consult in the event a situation arises” that puts
Ukraine’s security under threat.
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