It is a song mentioned by Vladimir Putin, after his call with Donald Trump this Monday, May 19. The Russian president said that Kremlin is ready to work with Ukraine in a “memorandum” on “a possible peace treaty” between the two countries.
“Russia will offer and is ready to work with the Ukrainian part in a memorandum on a possible future peace treaty,” he told the press.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had no details at this stage in a possible “memorandum” with Moscow, but that kyiv would be ready to study the Russian offer.
“At the moment, I don’t know,” he acknowledged at a press conference in kyiv.
“Once we have received the memorandum or the Russian proposals, we can formulate our vision accordingly, as we design it,” he added.
A memorandum “has absolutely no value”
This memorandum is “an international text that does not necessarily have great value,” explains Nicolas Tenzer, teacher at Geostrategy at Sciences PO.
As an example, this last quotes the Budapest Memorandu, signed in December 1994 by Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom and Russia.
“In exchange for a nuclear demilitarization of Ukraine,” this diplomatic document “guaranteed the borders and Russia had said ‘we will not violate them,” explains the teacher in our antenna. However, the memorandum does not have a union dimension. “Russia violated one hundred agreements,” recalls Nicolas Tenzer, this Monday night, for whom a memorandum “has absolutely no value.”
In April 2023, former US president Bill Clinton, then a white house tenant in 1994, said “want to have signed these memoranda:” An agreement that had concluded because he wanted Ukraine to renounce his nuclear weapons. “
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, deplored the signing of these Budapest memoranda, judging in December 2024 that “this document did not work for a single day.” Last January, the leader of Ukraine called Ukraine’s decision to renounce nuclear weapons without “stupid and illogical security guarantee.”
Source: BFM TV
