Former UK minister: Putin, Trump breach Budapest Memorandum

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Putin and Trump violate the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, where Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in exchange for security and territorial guarantees, former UK Defense Minister Sir Gerald Howarth says.  #Trump #Ukraine

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00:00OK, Sir Gerald.

00:01If I may say, that is an absurd analysis, forgive me, but what we should be looking

00:07at is the Budapest Memorandum of December 1994, which was signed by Boris Yeltsin on

00:15behalf of the Russian Federation, by President Bill Clinton on behalf of the United States,

00:21by Prime Minister John Major on behalf of the United Kingdom, and the then-Ukrainian

00:26President under which Ukraine agreed to give up its entire arsenal of nuclear weapons,

00:32in return for which its independence, its sovereignty, and its existing borders was

00:37to be respected by the parties thereto.

00:40I'm afraid that President, well, of course, Russia is in flagrant breach of that agreement

00:45that was signed by Boris Yeltsin, but I'm afraid the President of the United States

00:49is also now in breach of that agreement by tantamount to agreeing to allow the borders

00:55of Ukraine to be changed from what they were in 1994, and even to be changed without consulting

01:02the Ukrainian people, let alone their President.

01:06I think this is utterly shameful, leaving the United Kingdom as the only man standing

01:10prepared to honour that agreement of 1994.

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