Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday appealed to Washington and London, urging them to utilise all “diplomatic, political, economic and military” means to counter Russian intervention on the Crimean peninsula and to preserve the nation’s territorial integrity.
Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday appealed to Washington and London, urging them to utilise all “diplomatic, political, economic and military” means to counter Russian intervention on the Crimean peninsula and to preserve the nation’s territorial integrity.
The parliamentary resolution was addressed to the US and UK as signatories along with Russia of the 1994 Budapest memorandum, in which newly independent Ukraine surrendered its vast Soviet nuclear arsenal in return for territorial integrity guarantees.
“A country which willingly gave up its nuclear arsenal . . . and received guarantees from the world’s leading countries finds itself unprotected, one-on-one with a country which is armed to its teeth,” Arseniy Yatseniuk, Ukraine’s interim prime minister, said.
“If you do not uphold these guarantees which you signed up to in the Budapest Memorandum, then explain how you will convince Iran and North Korea to give up their nuclear status?” he asked.
