After Kyiv acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1994, the United Nations made a clear violation of the Budapest Memorandum, by which Russia, the US and Great Britain guaranteed Ukraine's security and respect for its sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Polish President Andrzej Duda in his speech at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

He believes that in order to be respected, it is very important that the international community abide by its obligations and responsibilities.

"It’s with regret, I would like to draw attention to the security developments in our region in Central and Eastern Europe. During the last few years, we witnessed a clear violation of the Budapest Memorandum, which guaranteed the territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for peaceful and voluntary nuclear disarmament," Duda said.

In addition, he stressed that the international community is also concerned about the deployment of “dual-purpose missile systems” near its eastern borders. This, he said, leads to a significant “deterioration of security in the region”.

Earlier, Steven Pifer, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine, an expert at the Brookings Institution analytical center on nuclear disarmament issues, said that Ukraine received only assurances of security rather than guarantees.

  Poland, Ukraine, EU, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

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