He identified that previous agreements, such because the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which was supposed to guard Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons, turned out to be meaningless.
“Not offering Ukraine with actual, efficient safety ensures within the Nineties was a strategic mistake that Moscow exploited. This mistake should be corrected,” Sybiha wrote.
The letter comes forward of a gathering of NATO international ministers in Brussels Tuesday and Wednesday to debate ongoing assist for Ukraine. Despite Kyiv’s name, no important steps towards inviting Ukraine into the alliance are anticipated through the summit.
Officials in Kyiv are more and more shedding hope that Ukraine will enter the army alliance any time quickly, with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump proposing to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership for not less than 20 years as a part of a possible peace cope with Russia.
“I feel that the second that would have been for an invite to NATO was not utilized by the present administration,” Ukraine’s Justice Minister Olga Stefanishyna mentioned final week, commenting on present U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration.
