FACT CHECK: Tsikhanouskaya: Deploying Nuclear Weapons Violates Belarus’ Constitution
· 03.06.2023 · 05:00:00 ··· ··· Saturday ·· 6 (6)
VOA News On May 25, Russia moved forward with plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, two months after President Vladimir Putin first announced Russia would station such weapons in Belarus.
Also on May 25, exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya condemned the nuclear weapons agreement between Minsk and Moscow.
The European Union recognizes Tsikhanouskaya as the country’s rightful leader, having rejected incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko’s victory in Belarus’ 2020 elections.
Tsikhanouskaya said in a video statement posted on Twitter that the nuclear weapons agreement with Russia violates Belarus’ constitution and its international obligations:
“The deployment of any kind of nuclear weapons in Belarus is not only a violation of international commitments such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. It also violates our non-nuclear status under the Constitution...”
That is true.
Russia’s transfer of nuclear weapons to Belarus explicitly violates the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Belarus also pledged to observe its non-nuclear status by signing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In addition, Belarus’ 1994 constitution prohibits deploying nuclear weapons on its territory.
https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-tsikhanouskaya-is-right-deploying-nuclear-weapons-violates-belarus-international-obligations-constitution/7115698.html
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