THE BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM ON SECURITY ASSURANCES

5 December 1994

Signed by: Ukraine, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America

1. Reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the CSCE (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe) Final Act, to respect the independence and the sovereignty of the existing borders of Ukraine.
2. Reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine, except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
3. Reaffirm their commitmen to Ukraine in accordance with the CSCE Final Act to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherited in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
4. Reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Uktaine as a non-nuclear weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
5. Reaffirm in the case of Ukraine their commutment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.
6. Will consult in the event a situation arises, which raises a question concerning these commitments.