Zelenskyy: Budapest Memorandum guarantors didn't give a damn about Ukraine
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Sun, 05 Jan 2025 22:04:09 +0200
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasises that Ukraine requires reliable security guarantees to end the war, not just on paper, as the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum demonstrated indifference to Ukraine.
Source Zelenskyy in an interview with American podcaster Lex Fridma Quote The Budapest Memorandum included security guarantees for Ukraine.
At first, three, the most important security guarantors for Ukraine strategic, friends and partners of Ukraine the US, Russia, Britain France and China joined.
Five states in total... We now understand that this is not a guarantee of security.
Because, on the one hand, these are security guarantees, but there was an English word, as far as I understand, assurance.
These are the largest states, the nuclear five.
Now we just need to find these people and we just need to put in jail all of those who, frankly, invented all this After occupying part of our Donbas and Crimea, Ukraine sent diplomats three times.
We sent letters to all security guarantors, to all members of the Budapest Memorandum.
What did they send That what was written on the piece of paper.
Consultations.
Ukraine holds consultations if its territorial integrity is violated.
And everyone should be in consultation.
Everyone must come.
Everyone must meet urgently.
USA, Britain, Russia.
France, China.
Did anyone come, you ask No.
Did anyone reply to these letters, official letters Did anyone conduct consultations No.
And why not They didnt give a damn.
This is understandable in Russian, right That as Russia didnt give a damn, neither did all the other security guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum.
None of them gave a damn about this country, these people, these security guarantees.
Details Zelenskyy noted that he discussed the Budapest Memorandum with US Presidentelect Donald Trump, stating, We havent finished this conversation yet well continue it.
He added that in February 2022, after the fullscale war began, letters were again sent to request consultations, but nobody responded.
Quote The question is simple about Budapest.
Can we trust this No.
Whichever country out of these five sat at the negotiating table, just because of a piece of paper Believe me, we will save you. The president described the security guarantees for Ukraine as a train with waste paper, with the second car being the Minsk agreements.
Quote The United States of America was no longer there.
I understand that Obama was here at the time.
I think they were simply not interested in what happened to Ukraine and where it was in general, where it was located. More details Zelenskyy also accused former German Chancellor Angela Merkel of forcing others not to invite Ukraine into NATO at the 2008 Bucharest summit, even though US President George W.
Bush supported such a decision.
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