MPs of the Batkivschyna and UDAR factions have submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a draft law on the denunciation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty dated July 1, 1968.
MP Serhiy Kaplin of the UDAR faction, MP Valentyn Koroliuk and MP Oleksandr Chornovolenko (both of the Batkivschyna faction) submitted the draft law on the denunciation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to parliament on March 20.
The lawmakers suggest the denunciation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the preparation of a program to resume the nuclear status of Ukraine in connection with the military aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation, which is supposed to be a guarantor of the country’s territorial integrity, according to the text of the bill posted on the Web site of the Verkhovna Rada.
On November 16, 1994, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law “On the Ukrainian Accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of July 1, 1968” with some reservations, which said the threat to use force or the use of force against the Ukrainian territorial integrity, the inviolability of its borders and political independence by any nuclear power, same as the economic pressure aiming at subordinating Ukrainian sovereign rights to their interests “would be regarded by Ukraine as extraordinary circumstances endangering its supreme interests.”
The law took effect after nuclear powers extended security guarantees to Ukraine with a relevant international treaty.
The Budapest Memorandum, an international treaty of Ukraine, the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom, was signed on December 5, 1994, to provide security guarantees in the context of the Ukrainian accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The treaty guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty and security.
