President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, addresses the General Assembly (49th Session, 61 Plenary meeting), 21 November 1994

Leonid Kuchma President of Ukraine, addresses the United Nations General Assembly, 26 November 1994.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 00:31:55
• Production Date: 21 November 1994
• Asset Language: English; Original
• Personal Subject: LEONID D. KUCHMA
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: UKRAINE SITUATION; PRESIDENTS; POLITICAL COOPERATION; NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; PEACEBUILDING; NEGOTIATION; TREATIES; GENERAL DEBATE; ARMS CONTROL; FORMER YUGOSLAVIA SITUATION; MEDIATION; REGIONAL COOPERATION; GROUP CONFLICT PREVENTION; SPEAKERS; WEAPONS SURRENDER; DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL SECURITY; ECONOMIC COOPERATION
• Geographic Subject: UKRAINE
• MAMS Id: 3541032
• Parent Id: 843600
• Alternate Title: TMS.63705

Description

Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine, addresses the United Nations General Assembly on 21 November 1994.

President Kuchma delivers his remarks in Ukrainian.The file includes a simultaneous English translation. 

President Kuchma highlights the good faith diplomatic and military disarmament, whereby Ukraine relinquished nuclear weapons and technology it inherited from the USSR after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As part of this forfeiture, Ukraine sought economic integration and security guarantees from Europe and the West.

From President Kuchma's remarks:

"In taking this historic decision the Parliament of Ukraine was counting on an appropriate response from the world community to our State’s voluntary renunciation of nuclear weapons, something that had never been done before in the history of mankind. Let me remind the Assembly that from the very beginning Ukraine hoped that in response to its initiative to eliminate the nuclear weapons deployed on its territory it would receive adequate support and assistance in meeting its real expenditures for the elimination of these weapons, as well as guarantees of its security from the nuclear States and appropriate compensation for the cost of the nuclear materials contained in the weapons." 

Related Sites and Documents

President Kuchma's full address in English

Budapest Memorandum, 5 December 1994

On security assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons