UNITED NATIONS, 27 August (APP): Reiterating its support for the objectives of the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Pakistan reminded the foreign network of its voluntary moratorium on nuclear tests since 1998, despite threats to regional security.
“Pakistan remains committed to the purpose of a nuclear-weapon-free world,” said Ambassador Muhammad Aamir Khan, Pakistan’s Deputy Permanent Representative, at a virtual assembly held at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday to mark International Nuclear Test Day. August 29.
The day has been commemorated every year since 2010.
August 29 marks the anniversary of the 1991 closure of The Control of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the largest nuclear control of the former Soviet Union.
Despite the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTT) in 1996, thousands of nuclear weapons are stored worldwide.
In his comments, the Pakistani representative said that Pakistan had made several proposals to keep South Asia nuclear-weapon-free and its supply after the first nuclear tests in South Asia in 1974, but regretted that none of them had received a favourable response.
“Pakistan is not the first to conduct nuclear control in South Asia and would not be the first to resume control,” he told delegates around the world.
“Despite threats to regional security, Pakistan has maintained a voluntary nuclear moratorium since 1998,” Ambassador Khan added. “These tangible measures demonstrate Pakistan’s commitment to the objectives and purposes of the CTS.”
Pakistan, he stressed, had been actively and constructively concerned with the TC and voted in favour when it followed the General Assembly in 1996.
Since then, Pakistan has voted in favour of the annual meeting of the CT to the First Committee of the General Assembly, which deals with disarmament and external security issues. Pakistan is also an accredited observer state of the OTICE Preparatory Committee and attends its meetings.
The representative of Pakistan also suggested that the foreign network recognize and address the main motivations of States for possessing nuclear weapons. These include: threats from larger, nuclear and conventional armed forces; the lifestyles of long-standing disputes with tougher states and the inability of the United Nations to put its own resolutions into force to those disputes; the inability of the United Nations collective security formula to deter aggression and threats from the military, discrimination and selectivity in the application of foreign criteria and criteria.
These valid motives, the Pakistani representative added, were “different from those of states that retained nuclear weapons as a matter of prestige, either for or to achieve the prestige of global power.”
Opening the assembly online, UN Chief disarmament Izumi Nakamitsu said this year’s commemoration comes 75 years after the United States conducted its first nuclear test, in the use of atomic weapons opposed to Japan, and some 2,000 other tests conducted in at least 8 countries in the following countries. Decades. The effects on the environment, fitness and economic progress are still felt today.
“The most productive way to honor those who suffer beyond nuclear tests is to save them in the future,” he said.
“As the Secretary General (Antonio Guterres) said, nuclear tests are a relic from another era and remain there.”
As Ms. Nakamitsu, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament, pointed out, the current era is marked by “increasingly hostile” relations between the nuclear-weapon States seeking quality and, in some cases, the quantity of their arsenals.
For THE President of the United Nations General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the coronavirus pandemic has pushed for collective action for humanity, adding to making a nuclear-weapon-free world a priority.
“Humanity’s very survival is based on our determined agreement that nuclear weapons will not be used and will be eliminated forever. A world without nuclear weapons is the only genuine guarantee to protect civilization from this existential threat,” he said.
Although 184 countries have signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and 168 have ratified it, the treaty has yet entered into force.
This will be only when ratified through 8 countries: China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres once called on all states that have signed or ratified the treaty to do so without additional delay.
“Nuclear risk is increasing again. A total ban on nuclear testing is a step towards saving them the qualitative and quantitative improvement of nuclear weapons and achieving nuclear disarmament,” he said in a message of the day.
Representatives from China, Brazil, ASEAN, the EU, Cuba, Germany and the Philippines addressed the meeting.