The United States plans to tightly cooperate with new Ukrainian authorities in the issues of providing Ukraine's security, although it is early to speak about concrete agreements, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt has said.
Pyatt expressed confidence that as soon as the President-elect Petro Poroshenko starts running the post they will discuss the further cooperation in the defense and security area with him. I would have been too early to speak about a concrete agreement at the present stage, he said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.Ukraine publication, commenting on the statement of Poroshenko that it is necessary to sign a new international agreement, which will replace the Budapest memorandum.
Pyatt said that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons signed by the United States, Britain, Russia and Ukraine, also known as the Budapest memorandum, did not provide Ukraine with security guarantees. He expressed confidence that if Ukraine had nuclear weapons this would not have impacted the decision of Russia to occupy Crimea and annex it.
