New York – In the midst of its annual general debate, which took place in September, the United Nations General Assembly held a special high-level plenary assembly at its headquarters in New York on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons . a leadership role in the assembly, since the factor is a fundamental pillar of the country’s foreign policy.
As an opening speaker, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered the keynote address, noting that “nuclear disarmament has been a precedent of the United Nations since the very beginning of the Organization’s existence”. some states have nuclear weapons important to their national security and survival. “However, its elimination “is important to anything beyond the fate of a single state: the survival of life on this planet. “
But some clouds are clouding the horizon: progress towards the abolition of nuclear force has stagnated and tensions between nuclear states have increased. Moreover, efforts to “modernize” arsenals have threatened to galvanize a “qualitative” nuclear arms race. There’s only one, treaty that restricts those threats, and it’s expected to expire early next year. Therefore, the United States and the Russian Federation extend the “new START Treaty” for up to five years. The treaty, which was signed in Prague in 2011, has the option of extending for five years, until five February 2021.
Nuclear-armed States, the Secretary-General said, have a legal responsibility to carry out this enterprise. And this effort will have to lead to “a non-unusual path to nuclear disarmament. “But the only way to completely eliminate the threat is to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether. The Covid-19 pandemic simply exposed the fragility of existing incomplete arrangements.
At the time a senior UN official spoke at the assembly, the current President of the General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir of Turkey, a prominent diplomat who spent nearly a century in his country’s foreign service, Bozkir recently elected Minister of Affairs of the European Union, before being selected in May 2020 as chairman of the 75th consultation of the General Assembly and sits from September 2020 to September 2021 as a member/representative of the Group of Western European and Other Countries (WEOG) of the Assembly, to which Turkey belongs.
Bozkir began by remembering the approximately 226,000 Japanese who lost their lives in the hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings. The first solution therefore followed the first General Assembly consultation [in London] in 1946 suggested that all nations achieve global nuclear energy. disarmament And the only way to deal with the threat and threat of nuclear weapons is . . .
The recent measure – already adopted – in this procedure the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, signed in 2017, this year also marks the 50th anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The NPT Review Conference (to be held every five years) will be held next time in 2021. “Nuclear disarmament,” Bozkir concluded, “must remain a priority for all of us. “
Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi’s response put Kazakhstan’s exclusive on the schedule of the meeting. He first quoted President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s speech, noting “his country’s ambitious and unwavering vision of [my] country to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. “
The Foreign Minister referred to the incredibly vital closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear control site and affirmed Kazakhstan’s “moral right to be at the forefront of foreign efforts for nuclear disarmament. “He also spoke of progress efforts in this region of Semipalatinsk. He referred to a solution to be proposed this year on external cooperation and environmental restoration. Therefore, the world will have to push for the push for a nuclear weapons treaty.
In view of the above, the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that, i. e. in the Covid-19 era, priorities and resources should be radically shifted to global public health, climate mitigation and sustainable development. centenary of the United Nations in 2045) have already been established through Kazakhstan’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and should remain our priorities today and in the future.