Hopes of achieving the universality of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) were becoming “ever more remote” amid new challenges to the global security architecture and a general slackening of political will, its Review Conference heard today, as State parties continued a third day of deliberations.
“No State or international body could address the immediate humanitarian emergency caused by a nuclear weapon detonation or provide adequate assistance to victims,” Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz told delegates today, as the month-long Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) reconvened.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the symposium entitled “The Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Energy: Fresh Ideas for the Future”, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the 2015 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Appeal Assembly, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message to the opening plenary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, in New York today:
Describing a nuclear-weapon-free world as a “critical global public good”, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community to work towards ensuring that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) retained its central role in collective security, as the month-long ninth Review Conference of that accord began at Headquarters today.
Although the global disarmament and non-proliferation regime had faced a “plethora of obstacles” over a number of years, there was no reason to lose faith, the Chair of the Disarmament Commission told members today, stressing that progress was possible if each State demonstrated the requisite political will.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Virginia Gamba, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the “A Century of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Enough!” event, organized by the municipalities of Ypres and Langemarck-poelkapelle in cooperation with the International Network of Mayors for Peace, held in Ypres, Belgium, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Virginia Gamba, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the event organized by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first use of chemical weapons, in Ypres, Belgium, today:
NEW YORK, 17 April (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — A delegation supporting the work of the Security Council’s 1540 Committee has concluded a four-day visit to Zambia, conducted upon invitation by the Government.
