US special representative against Ukraine’s attempts to revive the nuclear program

Ukraine should not attempt to revive its own nuclear program, said the special representative of the United States in Ukraine Kurt Walker. The official authorities have repeatedly stated the country's commitment to the obligations adopted after the liquidation of the nuclear arsenal. Moreover, the idea is periodically discussed in marginal circles as a way to limit Russia's aggression, which supports the separatists of the DPR and LPR.

Walker called the right decision of Ukraine to abandon nuclear weapons. “If Ukraine had not joined the countries that have abandoned nuclear weapons, then this would not be a good solution. I don’t think that nuclear weapons would be something positive for Ukraine,” the special representative of RIA Novosti quotes.

Volker also commented on other security problems that are now facing Ukraine - one of them, according to him, is the situation with the Crimea. “In 1994, no one thought that Russia could do this,” he said.

In 1994, Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States signed the Budapest Memorandum - an interstate security guarantee agreement adopted in connection with the accession of Ukraine to an agreement on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons. After that, the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine, inherited by it after the collapse of the USSR, was destroyed, and nuclear powers, including Russia, pledged to guarantee the country security and territorial integrity.

Ukrainian politicians indicate that the accession of Crimea to Russia after a rapid referendum conducted in the spring of 2014 looks like a direct violation of obligations for this memorandum.

Walker in an interview emphasized that about Crimea in the United States adhere to the same positions as in the EU. According to him, Washington never recognizes the "annexation" of the peninsula.

In 1970, an agreement on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons entered into force. He recorded the existence of five countries with nuclear weapons - the USSR, the USA, the UK, France and China - and ordered not to transfer it to anyone and not to encourage other countries to create it. The countries participating in the agreement that did not have nuclear weapons, in turn, pledged to no one to acquire it and not produce it.