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On December 18, the Russian news agency Interfax published an article in which Sergei Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, falsely claimed Russia had fulfilled its obligations under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. This is the agreement by which Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan gave up their leftover Soviet nuclear arsenals in exchange for protecting their 1991 borders.The Budapest Memorandum concerns security guarantees for Ukraine as a non-nuclear state within the meaning of the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty)
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