When Russia and America Assured Ukraine's Security | Budapest Memorandum Signing Ceremony (1994)

On 6 December 1994, ITN filmed world leaders signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances to Ukraine at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Budapest, Hungary. The agreement, signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin, US President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister John Major, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, prohibited Russia, the US, and the UK from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine in return for Ukraine joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and giving up its enormous Soviet nuclear arsenal. Identical agreements were concluded with Belarus and Kazakhstan, signed by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko. #History #ColdWar #PostColdWar #Russia #America #Ukraine #BudapestMemorandum #Soviet #SovietUnion #Soviets #Yeltsin #BorisYeltsin #BillClinton #Clinton #RussiaUkraineConflict #RussiaUkraineHistory #RussiaUkraine #1994 #NuclearWeapons To license the footage featured in this clip, follow the link below: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/search/2/film?phrase=R061294001* To search the ITN Archive collection on Getty Images, follow the link below: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/footage/itn 🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube channel (tap the bell icon and stay up to date with all the latest ITN Archive videos!) - https://www.youtube.com/@ITNArchive 🎥 Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ITNArchive 🎥 Like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ITNArchiveITNP 🎥 Check out our TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@itnarchive1955