Budapest Memorandum

…Volgens mij is dat de kern van... Ja, dat is de kern van het... Maar ja, dat begint direct al te schuren. Bijvoorbeeld veiligheidsgaranties, door wie? Want ik zie dat dus niet in dat stuk staan... wie dan die garanties moeten doen. En dan wordt natuurlijk onmiddellijk gedacht... wat zijn garanties nou eigenlijk waard? Want er is een Budapest-memorandum van…

…I wanted to talk to him about the long history of broken agreements between Ukraine and Russia that haunts the current peace negotiations, about the reason Ukraine won't trust Russian promises. He says a lot of it goes back to an agreement from 1994 called the Budapest Memorandum.…

…And back in the Budapest Memorandum, which was in the 90s, where they agreed to give up their nuclear weapons. And in exchange, the United States was like, yeah, we'll think about protecting it. Oh, it's not. We're going to protect. No, no. And even if we had said that, it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.…