Source:
Global Post (US)
Original post date:
24 March 2014
The UN chief said Monday that the failure to live up to promises to Ukraine in return for giving up its nuclear weapons should not discourage others from abandoning their atomic arsenals.
Opening a major summit of world leaders devoted to nuclear security, Ban Ki-moon said Russia's absorption of Crimea had "seriously undermined" the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine handed over its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in return for guarantees of sovereignty from Western powers and Moscow.
