European Council and Nuclear Security Summit

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:41 pm on 26 March 2014.

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Photo of Jack Straw Jack Straw Labour, Blackburn 12:41, 26 March 2014

I commend the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary’s strategy. In the absence of sending gunboats, which I think few of us would recommend, a step-by-step, long-term approach is sensible. Ukraine is one of the very few countries in the world that voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons on its soil, and it did so in return for clear guarantees of its territorial integrity, including from Russia. Given the talks on nuclear security that he has been involved in, can he say what further steps need to be taken to ensure that Russia’s invasion of Crimea does not undermine the international strategy to reduce nuclear proliferation?