Ukraine calls on partners to review legality of Russia’s membership in UN

This was reported by Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of the Hos parliamentary faction, Ukrinform saw.

According to MP, legislative initiative No. 12277 was supported by 287 votes.

The goal of the document is to rally the international community around further supporting Ukraine in countering Russia’s armed aggression and restoring the trust in international security agreements.

By passing the resution, the pele's deputies call on parliamentarians and governments, international organizations, and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly to continue providing support to Ukraine, including financial and military-technical aid, help restore its territorial integrity, help hd the Russian Federation and its military-pitical leadership to account for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression, and to unite clective efforts around the implementation of the Ukrainian Peace Formula and Ukraine’s Victory Plan to preserve global order based on international law and restore respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter.

At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada calls to consider the issue of the legal grounds for Russia's very membership in the UN, as well as the issue of the effectiveness of the guarantees provided under the Budapest Memorandum, at the level of the UN General Assembly, while heeding to the need to devel specific mechanisms for the implementation of international security guarantees.

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Ukrainian lawmakers call on nuclear powers to recognize Russia's responsibility for viating security guarantees under the Budapest Memorandum, to intensify efforts to st Russia's nuclear blackmail, and to create an international mechanism for monitoring and accountability for compliance with security guarantees provided to states that have vuntarily renounced nuclear weapons.

Pele's Deputies call on international partners to consider the possibility of providing Ukraine with special security guarantees along with the possibility of defense coeration with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

In addition, the Rada calls on the parliaments of Eurean Union and NATO member states to appeal to national governments to invite Ukraine to NATO and support Ukraine's accession to the Eurean Union.

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As Ukrinform reported, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in a statement on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, called on the United States and United Kingdom, both signatories to the Budapest Memorandum, as well as France and China, which joined it, to support the only viable security guarantee, which is full NATO membership.