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On December 5, 2024, the 30th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum is recognized. This document was meant to assure Ukraine’s security and territorial integrity in exchange for the country giving up its significant nuclear arsenal. However, the Memorandum failed to deter Russian aggression, which began in 2014 and intensified into a full-scale invasion in 2022, violating international law and the UN Charter.<\/p>\n

The inadequacy of the Budapest Memorandum has eroded trust in global nuclear disarmament and heightened security risks for Ukraine and beyond. Ukraine stresses the importance of obtaining clear, legally binding security guarantees, emphasizing its contributions to nuclear disarmament. It advocates for support from the Memorandum\u2019s signatories and asserts that its full NATO membership is essential for deterring future threats.<\/p>\n

This anniversary provides a crucial opportunity to promote Ukraine’s NATO membership as a necessary measure to enhance international security and restore confidence in nuclear disarmament efforts.<\/p>\n

Read More at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Today, the Budapest Memorandum is a monument to short-sightedness in strategic security decision-making. It should serve as a reminder to the current leaders of the Euro-Atlantic community that building a European security architecture at the expense of Ukraine's interests, rather than considering them, is destined to fail. Not providing Ukraine with real, effective security guarantees in the 1990s was a strategic mistake that Moscow exploited. This mistake must be corrected. Ukraine must be provided with clear, legally binding security guarantees that align with its significant contribution to global nuclear disarmament and the maintenance of international peace and security. We call on the US and the UK, signatories to the Memorandum, France and China, which have acceded to it, and all states-parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to support the provision of effective security guarantees to Ukraine. The only real guarantee of security for Ukraine, as well as a deterrent to further Russian aggression against Ukraine and other states, is Ukraine's full membership in NATO. With the bitter experience of the Budapest Memorandum behind us, we will not accept any alternatives, surrogates, or substitutes for Ukraine's full membership - Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/2024\/12\/03\/ukraines-foreign-ministry-commemorates-30-years-of-the-budapest-memorandum\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/2024\/12\/03\/ukraines-foreign-ministry-commemorates-30-years-of-the-budapest-memorandum\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es","@id":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/2024\/12\/03\/ukraines-foreign-ministry-commemorates-30-years-of-the-budapest-memorandum\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/50ec4847-72e8-419a-b617-55036d7b5f76.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/50ec4847-72e8-419a-b617-55036d7b5f76.jpg","width":1312,"height":871},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/2024\/12\/03\/ukraines-foreign-ministry-commemorates-30-years-of-the-budapest-memorandum\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Statement on 30th Anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/","name":"Kyiv Center for Defense Policy","description":"The Latest News from Kyiv, Ukraine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c3f7d4c122bad1dbebb75dfee2e155d0","name":"Kyiv Defense Policy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d5e3534f243044152ed884932b5778c66a6f916464933e6c55054e583cdf617?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d5e3534f243044152ed884932b5778c66a6f916464933e6c55054e583cdf617?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d5e3534f243044152ed884932b5778c66a6f916464933e6c55054e583cdf617?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kyiv Defense Policy"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/"],"url":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/author\/kyiv-defense-policy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}