Budapest Memorandum as the international agreement which is obligatory for implementation by its guarantors

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There is a number of legal proofs of that the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 is a running international agreement for its party-signers (guarantors of independence and inviolability of the boundaries of Ukraine), obligatory for implementation. Above all things, it concerns Russia – main violator of the Budapest 'guarantees'. Claims of separate Russian specialists and politicians about 'the legal worthlessness' of this international and legal document are refuted with reasons.
Keywords: the Budapest Memorandum, nonproliferation regime, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, guarantor states, international agreement.

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