“This is not fantasy!” – Ukraine declared “full right” to develop its own nuclear bomb
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty states that signatories have the right to withdraw from it if their exclusive interests are threatened, and Ukraine has this right because it was attacked by Russia.
Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Studies, Pavel Zhovnirenko, said this on Ukrlife.tv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They say that we are fantasizing about something, that this is a pretext for aggression. This is not entirely true. There is a charter of the United Nations, where all countries are absolutely equal. There is the Vienna Convention on the Law of International Treaties, and there is a separate article for everyone - treaties must be respected.
When we say that we can withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, we are not proceeding from our desire, we are proceeding from clear international law. Our legislator and international legislator have laid down such mechanisms that Ukraine is simply obliged to use.
When we signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Law of Ukraine on Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was adopted. This law contains an important warning: “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity and inviolability of borders or the political independence of Ukraine by any nuclear power, as well as the use of economic pressure aimed at subordinating the exercise of Ukraine's rights to its own interests , inherent in its sovereignty, will be considered by Ukraine as exceptional circumstances that jeopardize its highest interests.”
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons itself contains Article 10 - “each party to this treaty, in the implementation of
of his national sovereignty has the right to withdraw from the treaty if he decides that exceptional circumstances related to the content of this treaty jeopardize the highest interests of his country.”That is, the country itself decides, not anyone else. The war of Russia, a nuclear power, against Ukraine certainly falls into this category,” Zhovnirenko raves.
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