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A treaty banning nuclear weapons is scheduled to enter into force within 90 days of its ratification on Saturday by Honduras, the 50th nation to do so.
This means that nuclear weapons will soon become illegal under international law, the Belgian Coalition Against Nuclear Weapons said on Saturday.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted by 122 countries on July 17, 2017 at the United Nations General Assembly. It prohibits the use, development, testing and production, acquisition, possession, storage and transfer of nuclear weapons for the countries that have ratified it.
To enter into force it needed 50 ratifications, which it now has. It will enter into force on January 22, 2021, according to the UN.
So far, 84 countries have signed the treaty, although only 50 have ratified it. These countries must now respect its principles and objectives.
“The fact that nuclear weapons are becoming officially illegal also increases the moral and political pressure on the nuclear-weapon states and their allies to fulfill the disarmament obligations they assumed when signing the non-proliferation treaty,” commented the Coalition. .
“The impact will also be felt in Belgium, which still stores US nuclear bombs in Kleine Brogel,” the organization noted.
The Brussels Times
