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Russia: Ukraine

Commons · Question 36141 · Tabled 6 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 13 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Alicia Kearns

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications of the Budapest Memorandum for his policies.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Doughty, 13 Mar 2025

In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in return for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons, Russia committed to "refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine." Russia has clearly breach...