On the Appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to Parliaments and Governments of Foreign States, the United Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its Parliamentary Assembly on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of Signing the Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Budapest Memorandum)

Resolution Approving the Address of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to International Partners on the 30th Anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum Signing

The document recalls Ukraine’s voluntary renunciation of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees and states the violation of these guarantees by the Russian Federation. Structurally, the document consists of a preamble describing the historical context of the Budapest Memorandum and three blocks of appeals to: 1) the UN and foreign states; 2) nuclear-weapon states; 3) parliaments of EU and NATO countries.

Key provisions include:

– A call to examine the legal grounds for the Russian Federation’s membership in the UN
– The need to develop a new system of international security guarantees
– A demand to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation and provide military assistance to Ukraine
– An appeal to support Ukraine’s accession to NATO and the EU
– A requirement to create a mechanism for monitoring compliance with security guarantees for states that have renounced nuclear weapons

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