United Nations – The United States is urging countries that have ratified the UN treaty to withdraw their support to ban nuclear weapons, as the agreement could provide the 50 ratings needed to turn the entry closer, with supporters saying this May come in weeks. The five American nuclear powers – the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France – and the NATO allies in the United States are united in their opposition to the treaty’s possible response, according to an American letter to the Associated Press.
He says the treaty, which is half a century old, “turns the clock back on probe and disarmament and is dangerous.” Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Considered the foundation of global de-certification efforts.
“While we recognize your sovereign right to ratify or accept the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), we believe you have made a strategic mistake and should withdraw your instrument of ratification or assimilation,” the letter said.
The treaty requires that all countries under the pretext “never under any circumstances … develop, test, manufacture, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.” It requires the parties to ban any transfer or use of nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices – and threats to use such weapons – and to promote the treaty in other countries.
Beatrice Fihan, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Weapons, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner The coalition, whose work is helping push forward the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that several diplomatic sources had confirmed that they and other states that ratified the TPNW had requested their withdrawal by the US.
He said “some growing panic with nuclear-armed states and the Trump administration in particular, and perhaps a direct panic, shows that they” really understand that this is a reality: nuclear weapons will be banned under international law. “Soon.”
Fih rejected the nuclear powers’ claim that the treaty interfering with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty was “outright lies, obviously.”
“They have no real argument to back up the matter,” he said. “The Treaty of Dishonesty is about preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the elimination of nuclear weapons, and this treaty enforces it. There is no way you can undermine the non-proliferation treaty by banning nuclear weapons. That is the ultimate goal of the non-proliferation treaty.”
The NPT sought to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons from the five core arms powers. Nuclear signatories are needed in exchange for a commitment by the five powers to move toward nuclear disarmament and to guarantee a guarantee of peaceful nuclear technology to produce a peaceful reunification of nuclear-armed states.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a “very welcome initiative.”
“It is clear to me that we will only be safe on that day when it comes to nuclear weapons,” he told the AP on Wednesday. “We know it’s not easy. We know there are a lot of obstacles.”
He hopes that many important initiatives, including US-Russia talks on renewal of the “Newstart” treaty, limiting nuclear weapons, missiles and bombers, and a nuclear non-proliferation treaty review conference next year, will all come together in one direction, and the ultimate goal. There should be a world without nuclear weapons. “
According to Pamela Falk reports from CBS News, the US and Russia are currently negotiating the expansion of Newstart, the only outstanding nuclear deal between the two adversaries. The treaty will expire in February 2021. The administration is trying to complete the expansion before the November elections.
“What we have suggested to extend that agreement will be historic,” Pompeo said Wednesday. “It will be a great achievement. Russia has agreed in principle to stabilize all its nuclear weapons.”
Earlier this week, U.S. negotiators said expansion was imminent, but signaling that the agreement had not yet been sealed, Pompeo added: “We need to make sure that U.S. and Russian negotiators continue to make as much progress as possible. Get it done as soon as possible. Finalize the verification agreement. ”
“The Trump administration’s pressure on countries to withdraw from the UN-backed disarmament treaty is unprecedented in international relations,” Fahn said. “The fact that U.S. countries are violating their treaty obligations by not promoting TPNW in other states shows how much they are afraid of the treaty’s impact and growing support.”
There was a treaty Approved by the 193-member UN General Assembly on July 7, 2017 With 122 votes in favor, the Netherlands opposed, and Singapore did not. Iran was also among the countries voting in favor. India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – five other nuclear powers with nuclear weapons or recognition and four other countries boycotted the treaty talks and votes with many of their allies.
At the time of the vote of approval, the UN ambassadors to the United States, Britain and France stated that their countries never intended to be party to the treaty, saying it “clearly ignores the realities of the international security environment” and is inconsistent with the nuclear non-proliferation policy. It takes 70 years of peace in North Asia. ”
The treaty currently has 47 ratifications and 50 ratifications are required to implement it in 90 days.
“There are about 10 countries that are working very hard to get the 50 ratified,” Fahn said, “and we know that there are some governments that are working on Friday’s date. It will happen, but hopefully it will. “
Friday has been an unofficial target as it is the eve of United Nations Day on October 24 which marks the anniversary of the entry into force of the 1945 UN Charter. The day has been celebrated since 1948 and this year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the UN
Finn insisted that entering into treaty implementation would be a “really big deal” as it would become part of international law and would raise the issue of disarmament, war crimes and weapons.
That said, and I think over time the pressure on nuclear-armed states to join the treaty will increase.
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