U.S. prepared to ratify Ukraine security guarantees in Congress, FM Sybiha says
Nation14 February, 03:19 AM
Kyiv has received word from Washington that the United States
is prepared to have Congress ratify legally binding security guarantees for
Ukraine, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Feb. 13.
The Foreign Ministry posted Sybiha’s remarks on its Telegram channel. The message explicitly stated he was referring to “legally binding guarantees, not assurances.” Differing translations and interpretations of “guarantees” vs. “assurances” have rendered the 1994 Budapest Memorandum useless in preventing the Russian aggression.
The bilateral Ukraine–U.S. agreement is “nearly ready,” according to the minister.
On Feb. 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
said the documents on security guarantees were ready for signing at Washington’s
earliest convenience.