Fihn under pressure that “the Non-Proliferation Treaty aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and eliminate nuclear weapons, and this treaty implements it. It is to undermine the Non-Proliferation Treaty by banning nuclear weapons. This is the ultimate purpose of the Non-Proliferation Treaty”.
The NPT was intended to prevent it from spreading nuclear weapons beyond the original five powers, and obliges non-nuclear signatory countries not to pursue atomic weapons in exchange for the five powers’ commitment to move towards nuclear disarmament and ensure the absence of nuclear weapons. Nuclear states to non-violent nuclear generation to produce energy.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres supported the nuclear weapons ban treaty as a “very welcome initiative. “
“It is transparent to me that we will not deal exclusively with non-transparent weapons until the day that non-transparent weapons no longer exist,” he said in an interview with AP on Wednesday. “We know it’s not easy. We know there are many. “barriers. “
He hoped that a number of vital initiatives, adding the US-Russia talks on the renewal of the New Start Treaty restricting the deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles and bombers and next year’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review convention, will “converge. “in the same direction, and the ultimate end will have to be to have a world without nuclear weapons. “
The treaty was approved through the 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly on 7 July 2017 by a vote of 122 votes in favour, the Netherlands opposed it and Singapore abstained. Iran is among the countries that voted. The five nuclear powers and 4 other countries known or suspected of possessing nuclear weapons – India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – boycotted the negotiations and voted on the treaty, as well as many of its allies.
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, who was a fervent proponent of the treaty, said: “When I learned that we had reached our 50 ratification, I could not introduce myself.
“I stayed in my chair and put my head in my hands and cried with joy,” he said in a statement. “I have committed my life to the abolition of nuclear weapons. I have nothing yet gratitude for all those who have worked for the good fortune of our treaty.