Sec. 101. Statement of policy
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It is the policy of the United States to— support the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine; declassify or downgrade United States intelligence, consistent with the need to protect sources and methods, on Russian malign activities in Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic and Black Sea nations, to the maximum extent possible, to enable and encourage dissemination to United States allies and partners and to the American public; provide critical capabilities, including surface-to-air missiles, air defense systems, anti-ship missiles, anti-tank mines, and others, to Ukraine on an expedited basis; reaffirm the freedom of States to choose their own security arrangements, as pledged in the 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe, to which Russia was a signatory; demand the Government of Russia reaffirms its commitment to agreements to which it is a signatory, including the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, the 1990 Charter of Paris, and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum; remain fully committed to NATO’s Open Door Policy, which provides a path to membership for any European country that shares our values and meets the necessary responsibilities and obligations; continue to fully support NATO’s decision in the 2008 Bucharest Summit Declaration, reaffirmed ever since, including in the June 2021 Brussels Summit, that Ukraine and Georgia will become NATO members; commit to include all relevant European countries in discussions about European security and to prioritize existing mechanisms, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the NATO-Russia Council, for those discussions; reject the proposals publicized on December 17, 2021, by the Government of Russia as a legitimate basis of negotiations on European security issues; repudiate Russia’s proposal for a deployment moratorium in the European theater for intermediate-range ground launched missile systems that were previously banned under the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
(INF)Treaty until Russia repeatedly violated the agreement causing its demise; encourage near-term, in-person visits by United States and Ukraine leaders to each other’s countries; support the rapid deployment of additional observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the Ukraine-Russian border and report aggressive acts; and continue the current United States nuclear declaratory policy of calculated ambiguity and reject changes to United States nuclear declaratory policy of calculated ambiguity and reject changes to United States nuclear declaratory policy that would invite further Russian aggression and undermine NATO unity, and tempt nuclear proliferation, such as Sole Purpose, Fundamental Purpose, or No First Use .