Украйна се отказва от алтернативни гаранции на членството в НАТО – haroonabadvital.com

Shortly before the start of the NATO meeting, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced its official position on possible security guarantees that could be considered a deterrent against Russia. The document indicates that Ukraine has previously rejected alternative forms of NATO membership, according to the bulletin “European justice”Quoted from the Foreign Policy Department in Kyiv.

“We are convinced that the only real guarantee of Ukraine’s security, as well as a deterrent to further Russian aggression against Ukraine and other countries, is Ukraine’s full membership in NATO,” the published text explains.

At the same time, the document indicates that Ukraine rejects in advance alternative forms of membership. “Having left behind the bitter experience of the Budapest Memorandum, we will not accept any alternatives or alternatives to Ukraine’s full NATO membership,” the Foreign Ministry in Kiev noted.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that all security agreements with other countries that Ukraine signed in 2024 confirm that they are not an alternative to NATO membership, so they do not fall under this definition.

The agency appeals to “the United States and Great Britain, which signed the Budapest Memorandum, and France and China, which have acceded to it, to all States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, with a call for political support” to invite Ukraine to join NATO now, which would serve as An effective countermeasure to Russia’s call for blackmail.”

The State Department also states that it is not only about Ukraine and not only about European security, because the attack on Ukraine, contrary to the 1994 agreements, “undermined confidence in the very idea of ​​nuclear disarmament” and was revived by “active attempts by various countries of the Indo-Pacific region and the Middle East to create Or expanding existing nuclear arsenals towards the Euro-Atlantic space.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry statement stressed that it was issued “on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum,” but the document was published two days before the scheduled date (which would be December 5). Today’s choice is not a coincidence – according to the publication’s sources, Minister Andrej Sepiga intends to present this position within the framework of the NATO Ministerial Meeting, which will start on December 3 in Brussels.

The detailed statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, which is structured as a political position paper, begins with references to what is expected from the Budapest Memorandum, signed in 1994 as part of the agreement to give up Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal.

“The memorandum was supposed to be an important step in promoting global nuclear disarmament and serve as an example for other countries to abandon nuclear weapons… However, it was unable to prevent the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine, as a nuclear weapons state.” Kyiv states that it is a country that has abandoned its nuclear arsenal.

The Foreign Ministry describes the Budapest Memorandum as “a monument to the short-sightedness of strategic decision-making in the field of security” and notes that “the development of the European security architecture at the expense of and without taking into account Ukraine’s interests is doomed to failure.” to fail.”