Ukraine's second president (1994-2005), representative in the Tripartite Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in the country's east, Leonid Kuchma, has said Ukraine needs to call member countries of the Budapest Memorandum for the consultations on the situation in Donbas.

"Given the fact that Ukraine is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, we still need to try to arrange through the Security Council the consultations of the Budapest Memorandum signatories," he told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

According to Kuchma, Ukraine's membership in the UN Security Council is important, including in order to draw the attention of this agency to the situation in Ukraine.

However, the "Normandy Format" of talks involving Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia is currently effective. "I think the world and the majority of Ukrainians believe that there are no other options other than the 'Normandy format' of negotiations," Kuchma said.

The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances is a political agreement signed in Budapest, Hungary, on December 5, 1994, providing security assurances by its signatories relating to Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The memorandum was originally signed by the U.S., the UK and Russia.