UN Secretary General, António Guterreswarned on Monday that the world was “only one misunderstanding or miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” for which he demanded agreement from the nuclear powers to reduce this serious threat.
“Humanity is in danger of forgetting the lessons forged in the terrifying flames of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” he said. Guterres opening of the review conference Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Chapter United Nations lamented that, at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions and mistrust, countries are turning away from disarmament and are instead seeking a “false sense of security” by spending “hundreds of billions of dollars on doomsday weapons that have no place on our planet.”
Guterres recalled that almost 13,000 nuclear weapons were currently stored in warehouses and stressed the risk this poses in the face of crises like those in Ukrainein the Middle East or peninsula Korea.
“We’ve been extremely lucky so far, but luck is not a strategy. And not a defense against geopolitical tensions leading to nuclear conflict,” he insisted.
avoid disaster
According to Guterres, the review conference NPT that begins today is an opportunity to agree on measures that will help avert catastrophe and put the world on the path to a nuclear-weapon-free future.
Among other things, the Portuguese diplomat urged the participating governments to reaffirm the norm against the use of atomic weapons with practical measures to reduce the risk of nuclear conflict, as well as to move forward in the reduction of arsenals with a view to complete elimination.
In addition, he called for a modernization of the NPT to move beyond the current status quo and promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy in response to the climate crisis.
On the other hand, Guterres called for facilitating nuclear talks in the Middle East – in relation to Iran – and in Asia – in the case of North Korea – and warned that by adding to these conflicts the threat of the use of nuclear weapons, these regions are heading for a “catastrophe” .
The NPT Review Conference, traditionally held every five years, opened in New York today two years late due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is marked by high tensions among nuclear-weapon countries.
The treaty, to which almost all countries of the world have joined, is designed to stop the spread of atomic weapons and obliges the five official nuclear powers (USA, Russia, France, China and UK United) with a policy of disarmament.
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