UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke Sunday on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear...
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke Sunday on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, declaring that nuclear weapons must be eliminated from the world and a new era of dialogue, trust and peace must begin.
Addressing the threat of nuclear weapons "has been central to the work of the United Nations since its inception," said the top UN official.
"In 1946, the very first General Assembly resolution sought 'the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction,'" the secretary-general noted.
The UN chief pointed out that although the total number of nuclear weapons has been decreasing for decades, some 14,000 are stockpiled around the world, which is facing "the highest level of nuclear risk" in almost four decades.
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