Like the remnants of nuclear weaponry that Ukraine displays in a former base-turned-museum, the security assurances promised to the country by Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are relics of the past.
The specter of that shattered 1994 Budapest Memorandum hung over negotiations in Saudi Arabia between Russian and American officials – the first such meeting of their delegations to discuss the Ukraine war since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in Feb. 2022.
Nuclear Security & WMD — Europe — Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) 1970 — Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) — Ukraine — Russia — United Kingdom (U.K.) — United States (U.S.) — Hungary — Saudi Arabia — Munich Security Conference — Belarus — Kazakhstan — Budapest Memorandum 1994 — Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) — Malta — Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) 2004 — New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) 2011 — Minsk Agreements 2014 — North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) — Trump Watch
