President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Archival photoMADRID, Feb 21 — RIA Novosti.President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, having announced a possible revision of the agreements on the nuclear status of this country, hardly really has such plans, his task was to attract the attention of the United States, Great Britain and Russia, Spanish expert on Russia and Eurasia, businessman Pedro Mourinho told RIA Novosti. Zelensky, speaking at the Munich Conference, he announced that he would initiate negotiations of the participants in the Budapest Memorandum on ensuring 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.» These statements by Pedro Zelensky Mourinho called «unfounded and irresponsible.» “I am sure that President Zelensky wanted to get his moment of glory at the Munich conference by making a catchy and inappropriate statement,” he said. Mourinho believes that Kiev really has “neither the intention to abandon the obligations enshrined in the Budapest Memorandum do».
Zelensky decided to build a nuclear bomb»Furthermore, withdrawing from the Budapest Agreement alone will not turn Ukraine into a nuclear power. The technology of nuclear weapons is very complex, and I think that Ukraine has other priorities and huge economic constraints than investing billions of euros in the development of a nuclear program. This is impossible in the short and medium term,» the expert believes. In his opinion, Zelensky's main task was to attract the attention of the countries that signed the memorandum: the United States, Great Britain, Russia, as well as China and France. The Ukrainian president should have «acted in the direction of de-escalation , restraint and calm,» Mourinho said. «As well as most of the major countries of the European Union, which understand that the destabilization of Eastern Europe will cause serious damage to the European Union itself, both economically and in energy, industrial and trade terms,» expert added.
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