Liam Fox
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(2 years, 4 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
I thank the monitoring mission teams. They are wonderful. I have met them and they do a fantastic job. I am sorry that they have had to be withdrawn, for the duty of care reasons that the hon. Gentleman rightly alludes to. We will keep that under constant review.
Dr Liam Fox (North Somerset) (Con)
The 1994 Budapest memorandum saw Ukraine give up its nuclear weapons in return for a security guarantee signed by not only Britain and the United States, but Russia. Does my right hon. Friend believe that Ukraine would have been invaded had it retained its nuclear weapons? What does that say about the value of a Russian signature on any international agreement?
The Prime Minister
It is clear that President Putin sets no stall by international law whatever and that is just one of the legal obligations that he has torn up.