Treaty banning nuclear weapons opens for signature at UN

Towards the world's first legal New York ceremony to ban nuclear weapons to open bonds for signature at the United Nations headquarters Today the treaty, spokespersons for international organizations, governments and civil society will celebrate this milestone, There is still work yet to be done and to do

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the ceremony: "General Assembly" The Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is concerned beyond the survival of the risks of nuclear weapons, such as generating disastrous humanitarian and environmental impacts caused by the use of nuclear weapons. " High level discussion of retained edges

. "As the treaty is headed towards a world without nuclear weapons to achieve the goal of universally important steps, I hope that it revitalizes the global effort to achieve this goal." , He added that it recognized the contribution of civil society and A-bomb survivors - survivors of the atomic bomb

At the same time, Mr. Gutres emphasizes the difficult way forward, recalling that there are still about 15,000 nuclear weapons. "We can not let these worst weapons endanger our world and the future of our children," he said.

Video: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres emphasized that the dialogue "building bridges and practical procedures" is necessary in the signing ceremony to promote the agenda of the world's disarmament

One vote against Norwegian (Singapore) in 122 votes, July 7 this year in New York (the Netherlands) United Nations Conference on Treaty - By prohibiting various activities related to nuclear weapons, As a commitment of development, threats of testing, production, manufacturing, acquisition, possession or storage and use of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices or use of these weapons

However, most of the nuclear-armed states and their allies did not attend negotiations. The United States, Britain and France have announced a joint press statement, they said, "We did not participate in the treaty negotiations ... ... not ratifying ratifications that do not sign or never intended to become a party to the treaty" After adopting it.

The UN High Representative for today 's ceremony served as the chairman, expecting forty - two countries to take place after the date of signing the treaty. We have concluded contracts as well as Thailand and the Papacy, and also approved the agreement

Assembled at the ceremony The President of Miroslav Lajčák pointed out that the treaty shows the will of the Member States to achieve the change

"That is, we can maintain the existence of nuclear weapons in the movies and books worldwide, in order to achieve our goal, to raise the public awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons.However, We need to do a lot to complete the whole process. "

Treaty on page 10 banning nuclear weapons will be signed at any annual general meeting of 20 th September to any UN member country. A country with nuclear weapons will not be expected to sign soon, but supporters of the treaty mark this an important step towards a nuclear-free world with weapons prohibited under international law I believe that. On the other hand, "This is a prohibited prohibition weapon of other mass destroyers" Beatrice Feehan international nuclear abolition movement was held in Geneva, he said. "We banned the use of chemical weapons 25 years ago and today we prohibit the use of nuclear weapons and we prohibit the use of biological weapons 45 years ago." The treaty will be within 50 years She said that there is the possibility of being approved in the country and the need to incorporate international law.

"The prohibition of nuclear weapons treaties" or "the treaty is to prohibit nuclear weapons", the first legally binding international agreement on the full ban on nuclear weapons, the goal is complete elimination of nuclear weapons. It is on 7th July 2017. Sign and ratify, validate at least 50 countries. In order for the State to participate in the Convention, the Convention prohibits encouragement not only of the threats of development, testing, production, stockpiling, stationing, transfer, use and use of nuclear weapons but also aid and prohibited activities. In order for nuclear-armed states to participate in the treaty, we set up a deadline framework for negotiations to verify and cancel irreversibly nuclear weapons programs,