On January 26, Yurii Klymenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine in Geneva, participated in the general debate during the plenary meeting of the 2021 session of the Conference on Disarmament (CD).

The Permanent Representative of Ukraine emphasised in his statement, in particular, the increasing devastating consequences of the ongoing aggression of the Russian Federation against our country; the importance of the strict implementation of the UNGA Resolution 75/29 of December 7, 2020, entitled “Problem of the militarisation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, as well as parts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov”; blatant violation by the Russian Federation of the Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, as well as Russia’s disregard for the provisions of a number of convention instruments in the areas of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, that negatively impacts the global security architecture, especially against the backdrop of the three review conferences – NPT, BTWC and CCW – to be held in the second half of 2021.

Yurii Klymenko stressed the need for the countries, the Russian Federation in first place, to strictly comply with the international obligations under the existing instruments in the sphere of disarmament and non-proliferation, as well as pertinence of building confidence between the Conference member-states by taking concrete steps to create preconditions for the transition to substantive work of the CD on negotiating new legally binding instruments in the field of arms control.