UN General Assembly
1994

people in the morality of the non-nuclear option and was not the result of any external pressure. At the same time, Ukraine, as a State that of its own free will is giving up nuclear weapons - this most effective means of deterrence - obviously has the right to obtain reliable security guarantees from other nuclear States and adequate economic and technical assistance from the international community for the elimination of these weapons. Unfortunately, our partners did not immediately comprehend these just demands, and we lost a lot of time. The Ukraine Parliament’s conditions for revoking its reservations at the time of the ratification of the START Treaty and the Lisbon Protocol, and for proceeding with the practical withdrawal of nuclear warheads from Ukraine with the view to their further elimination, were created only after the Trilateral Statement by the Presidents of Ukraine, the United States and the Russian Federation was signed and the relevant implementation agreements were concluded. Very soon the Parliament of Ukraine intends to consider the accession of our State to the non-