The Motherland Monument in Kiev. File photoKYIV, Feb. 20 German Ambassador to Kiev Anka Feldhusen said that the Budapest Memorandum, according to which nuclear states act as guarantors of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, has no legal obligations.
"The Budapest Memorandum is really a format without legal obligations under international law. But I think that now we need to try everything to avoid war", the ambassador said on the TV channel "Ukraine-24".
Speaking during the Munich Conference, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that initiates negotiations of the participants in the Budapest Memorandum on Security. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was entrusted to convene them. According to the Ukrainian president, if they do not take place or there are no security guarantees for Kiev as a result, «Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum does not work, and all package decisions of 1994 will be called into question.» The UN responded at the request of RIA Novosti to comment on Zelensky's words about the Budapest Memorandum, they were reminded of the need to de-escalate actions and aggressive rhetoric. /2022/02/722d692dd9316fb24432d8a03ae80e57.jpg» />Zelensky invited Putin to meetPosted by: Nikita Stoma