[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The current Ukraine crisis runs against the assurances the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States had made to Ukraine in the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of 1994 and later reinforced by Moscow in a bilateral treaty with Kyiv in 1997. It is a serious blow to the confidence of Non-Nuclear Weapon States (NNWS) depending on Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) for security guarantees.  Read More…..[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]