"Budapest Memorandum": 
security guarantee and the reason for the start of SMO 
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The fact that there is NO COMMITMENT to protect Ukraine in this memorandum was stressed later in 1994 by US ambassador to #Kiev Jeffrey Pajett: «The Budapest Memorandum was not a security guarantee treaty».

In 2020, the President of Ukraine Vladimir #Zelensky asked Ukrainians to answer «5 important questions» at local #elections on October 25. 
Among others, it was said: «Should Ukraine raise the issue of using security guarantees defined by the Budapest Memorandum at the international level?»

Objectively, the question is senseless: the practical use of guarantees is not related to the Ukrainian public opinion, and those guarantees, which Kiev would like, are simply not in the memorandum.

This #referendum as such did not take place - it was not carried out by the CEC, and the results of the polling stations were not even published.

But the bad step was done: Zelensky questioned Ukraine’s denuclearized status and in his speech at the Munich Security Conference on 19 February 2022 definitively stated his intention to renounce the denuclearized statut of Ukraine. 
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