Ukraine's second president (1994-2005),
representative in the Tripartite Contact Group on the settlement of the
situation in the country's east, Leonid Kuchma, has said Ukraine needs to call
member countries of the Budapest Memorandum for the consultations on the
situation in Donbas.
"Given the fact that Ukraine is a
non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, we still need to try to
arrange through the Security Council the consultations of the Budapest
Memorandum signatories," he told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.
According to Kuchma, Ukraine's membership in the
UN Security Council is important, including in order to draw the attention of
this agency to the situation in Ukraine.
However, the "Normandy Format" of
talks involving Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia is currently effective.
"I think the world and the majority of Ukrainians believe that there are
no other options other than the 'Normandy format' of negotiations," Kuchma
said.
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances
is a political agreement signed in Budapest, Hungary, on December 5, 1994,
providing security assurances by its signatories relating to Ukraine's
accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The
memorandum was originally signed by the U.S., the UK and Russia.
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