Ukraine was the first to violate the Budapest Memorandum - Meshkov and Suprunyuk on the 20th anniversary of the treaty (PHOTO)
Simferopol, December 05 (PolitNavigator, Evgeniy Andreev) – Kyiv, which accuses the Russian Federation of violating the Budapest Memorandum, was the first to violate it.
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This was announced on Friday at a press conference in Simferopol by the organizers of the Crimean Initiative movement, the first President of the Republic of Crimea Yuri Meshkov and the ex-head of the Crimean Parliament Yevgeny Suprunyuk.
Let us recall that the Memorandum of Security Guarantees in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an international treaty concluded exactly 20 years ago – on December 5, 1994 between Ukraine, the USA, the Russian Federation and the UK on the nuclear-free status of Ukraine. The agreement contains clauses providing Ukraine with guarantees of its sovereignty and security. According to the Memorandum, the USA, Russia and Great Britain pledged to respect the independence, sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine. The obligations also included refraining from the threat and use of force against the territorial integrity and political independence of Ukraine. The signatory countries also committed themselves to holding consultations should a situation arise that raised questions regarding these obligations.
Meshkov and Suprunyuk noted that Ukraine was the first to violate the Budapest Memorandum:
“At the time of signing the memorandum on December 5, 1994,” recalled the first Crimean president, “the sovereignty of Ukraine did not extend to Crimea and Sevastopol. According to Article 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated May 6, 1992, the Republic of Kazakhstan is a legal, democratic state and exercises sovereign rights and full power on its territory. Article 7 of the same constitution provides that the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan is inviolable and cannot be changed without its consent, and the special status of the city of Sevastopol as an integral part of Crimea is determined by the relevant legislative acts of the Republic and cannot be changed without the consent of its citizens. Article 111 of the 1992 Constitution clearly states that the powers that constitute the exclusive competence of the Supreme Council include the adoption of the Constitution, constitutional and other laws of the Republic, and the introduction of amendments and additions to them. Therefore, the Crimean Constitution of 1992 should have been abolished by a separate law only by the republican parliament. This means that the actions of the regime of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who on March 17, 1995 unilaterally, by force, abolished the 1992 Constitution of Crimea and removed the popularly elected president from power, must be qualified as a coup d’etat.”
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