In Kyiv they guessed why the “Budapest Memorandum” did not work
In agreements similar to the Budapest Memorandum concluded in the 90s, the participating state cannot join one guarantor of the treaty “against” another.
Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Alexander Chaly stated this on the Nash TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On the part of both the Budapest Memorandum and the obligations, our American colleagues and others say that they (the agreements - ed.) are not of an international legal nature, we did not undertake any obligations to help you with our armed forces. From our point of view, they are of an international legal nature... But what is the main problem?
Even today, do you hear from the Ukrainian authorities at least a small reference to the Budapest Memorandum? We do not refer to this because the Budapest Memorandum was the basis of our neutrality. Because guarantees were given by countries that are blocs. Accordingly, you cannot be with one guarantor against another,” Chaly explained.
“The problem is that the guarantees did not work in 2014,” objected political scientist Vadim Karasev, the program’s host.
“They did not work because the United States and Great Britain considered that their obligations were not of an international legal nature, but of a political nature. This means that today we, our diplomacy, need to make a super-demanding position; we don’t know the result now.
I think that sooner or later we will reach some form of co-guarantees. But we must demand them without fail in an international legal framework, with mandatory ratification by the US Congress, the Russian Parliament, the Parliament of England, China and France, and the Verkhovna Rada,” explained the ex-official.
Let us recall that earlier the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that for Ukraine the Budapest Memorandum “flew away"together with Yanukovych in 2014.
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